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The Greatest War Movie Ever Made
Germany, Born in Blood and Iron
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Breaking through the Screen
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Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now	 (United Artists)
Apocalypse Now, 40 years later.
The second-to-last comment made by Colonel Walter E. Kurtz is this: "Their commanders won't allow them to write 'F***' on their airplanes because it's obscene." In Apocalypse Now we've seen a cavalry officer wipe out a village and call in a napalm strike to make a beach safe for surfing. We've seen the hero of the piece fatally shoot a badly wounded woman because he doesn't want the hassle of bringing her to a hospital. Kurtz lives in an infernal empire of rotting corpses and severed heads. Words are obscene? War is obscene. Maybe one war in particular.
Regardless of whether that assertion is true, Apocalypse Now is a vision of fierce but controlled passion, grotesque and beautiful. If it ended at the 45-minute mark, after Colonel Kilgore extols the fragrance of a.m. napalm, it would still be the dean of all war movies, the sharpest and most haunting.
Apocalypse Now is returning to theaters August 15, exactly 40 years after its original release, and then being reissued in a "final cut" DVD. The original version ran 153 minutes, but after movie nerds started enthusing about the supposedly superior version containing "lost footage," director Francis Ford Coppola delivered the sprawling Apocalypse Now Redux in 2002. He now says that version was "a little too long" at three hours and 22 minutes. Wrong: it was way too long. The "final cut" version is three hours and three minutes, and although some of the restored material is interesting, none of it is essential. The best cut remains the first theatrical release.
Still, seeing the film on a big screen, with a surround sound system, is an essential cinematic experience. Apocalypse Now builds a vision of war around paradoxes and incongruities and grueling ironies. It interrogates the whole business of war without being reductionist or trite. If anything is cliché about Apocalypse Now — and Coppola's nephew Jason Schwartzman savagely parodied it as Max Fischer in Rushmore in 1998 — it's because Coppola's work created a standard. Along with the propaganda film Hearts and Minds (1974), possibly the most influential documentary ever made, it helped cement America's sense of what the Vietnam War was, far more so than The Deer Hunter (whose fixation on Russian roulette has nothing to do with Vietnam) or Full Metal Jacket (which revels in caustic ironies but doesn't go as deep). The moral compromises and blurred lines that attach to making war became especially associated with Vietnam, in large part due to this film and its vision of the conflict as a morass of iniquity through which one assassin chases another. "In Vietnam the s*** piled up so high you needed wings to stay above it," says Martin Sheen's Captain Willard. Willard lacks an angel's wings. He's killed at least six people, and those are just the ones who were close enough that he could feel their last breath.
The core of the brief against Kurtz (Marlon Brando's portrayal is as brilliant as anything he ever did) is that he assassinated four highly placed South Vietnamese, one of them a woman and the other three leading officers for our allies. Yet Willard comes to believe Kurtz was correct to believe all four were double agents working for the Communists. And he has difficulty sorting out justified killing from the unlawful and immoral kind, musing in one of the movie's many devastating observations that "charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500." Veteran Vietnam correspondent Michael Herr contributed much of this material (Coppola and John Milius, who never served but became a military obsessive, wrote the rest). Kurtz is insane, but so is much else that we see through Willard's eyes, from men surfing amid exploding ordnance to peasants getting shot because they reached for a puppy. Amid high-tech killing machines, one man is felled by a spear.
The film is a kind of symphony of clashing chords, opposing signifiers. Just as Jim Morrison's velvety voice begins singing "The End," the napalm cloud blossoms, its gorgeous orange masking unspeakable devastation. The sound editor Walter Murch brings us perhaps the cleverest aural pun in cinematic history: those frightening chopper blades turning into the harmless rotation of the ceiling fan, then back again. Robert Duvall's Colonel Kilgore harmonizes Wagner with bullets. The lush natural beauty of the Communist village, and the serenity of its white-clad schoolteachers, is set off by the ugliness of their hidden arsenal and the ferocity of their resistance, which culminates in a woman blowing up an American chopper. In its final moments the film turns the ritual slaughter of a beast into the ritual slaughter of a man.
Willard learns only when he is about to arrive at the compound where Kurtz is running a nauseatingly evil cult that the previous man sent to kill him became a disciple instead. Kurtz's logic is seductive, like Satan's. He wants to persuade Willard, or to be ended by him. To taunt him he throws the head of one of Willard's soldiers in his lap. A late monologue invokes and accepts evil as the natural outcome of the war. Kurtz's submission to evil is like a perverted baptism — he describes it as like being shot with a diamond. You have to have men who "kill without feeling, without passion, without judgment," Kurtz says, because "it's judgment that defeats us." Kurtz thinks Willard has the right to kill him, but not to judge him.
Coppola has reversed himself on the film's ending, then reversed himself again. Apparently the version many viewers recall, with a final spectacle of napalm destruction playing over the closing credits, was not meant to suggest that Willard ordered in the air strike — code-named Almighty — to exterminate the evil of Kurtz's camp. (The strike was meant to suggest the fury of the war in general or, to be less charitable, simply to use up some cool and very expensively obtained footage Coppola couldn't squeeze in anywhere else.) The latest version ends simply with Willard leaving the camp and its ranks of hollow men, the savages who have mindlessly transferred their allegiance to the new alpha after the slaughter. The air strike seems to me the perfect ending, though, signaling as it would that Willard's capacity for violence was much the equal of Kurtz's — and that the wrath of the Almighty could be contained no longer.
Kyle Smith is a fellow at National Review Institute and National Review's critic-at-large. @rkylesmith
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Alternathera Reineckii is a beginner friendly red aquarium stem plant.
Also called Scarlet Temple. Alternathera Reinckii will add a nice splash of red to your aquarium and it does not need a lot of light to do so. It does grow a bit slower then other stem plants.
Tank Size: Because most stem plants can range in size and can be trimmed to fit your tank accordingly we recommend this plant for all tank sizes.
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Amazon sword is one of the most well know sword plant in the hobby. It can be grown in a low tech tank. It is a great center piece plant and would look nice in any tank over 20 gallons. Like other swords this plant will benefit greatly from a having a nutrient rich substrate or root tabs.
Anacharis Densa is a great beginner plant if you have a medium light in your tank. Densa is easy to grow, either planted or floating. Anacharis Densa has nice transparent green leaves. It is great at absorbing excess waste for the tank inhabitants.
Anubias Afzelii is another form of Anubias that has entered the hobby within the last few years. Its leaves are more narrow then Nana's, but they are longer. Anubias Afzelii also has a red rhizome which can add some nice color to a tank. This plant grows by having a horizontal rhizome and producing vertical leaves. When planting the Anubias Afzelii, do not bury the rhizome in your substrate. Only the roots, or attach it to driftwood or rocks. You can propagate this plant by cutting the rhizome in half and moving the cutting to another area. This will allow both cuttings to keep growing.
Much like other Anubias, Anubias Afzelii can be easily attached to driftwood or rocks. You can also plant Afezelii, however, make sure the horizontal rhizome or stem is above the substrate. It can also be easily propagated by cutting the rhizome into smaller sections. We recommend leaving 2-3 leaves per section.


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Free things to do in Copenhagen
ROUGHGUIDES.COM / BLOG /FREE THINGS TO DO IN COPENHAGEN
written by Lucy Kane
Surrounded by sea, peppered with sleek and striking architecture, and populated by an attractive, laid-back bunch of Danes, Copenhagen tops the table for being Europe's most relaxed city. But this enviable lifestyle comes at a cost – quite literally: it's one of the most expensive cities you'll ever come across. With food and drink at eye-wateringly high prices, you'll need a wad of cash to sustain yourself, but follow these tips for free things to do in Copenhagen, and maybe you could afford that trip to Noma after all…
Visit the Little Mermaid
Copenhagen's biggest – and smallest – icon, the Little Mermaid is a diminutive statue sitting at the end of the Langelinie promenade. Commissioned in 1909 by the founder of the Carlsberg brewery, J. C Jacobsen, and unveiled in 1913, the poor little soul has been subjected to vicious vandalism over the years, having had her head and limbs chopped off, had paint thrown over her and even been bombed in 2003. It's free to go and pay her a somewhat more deferential visit.
Picnic in the Kongens Have
Laced by leafy avenues and spread with lush green grass, the Kongens Have is Copenhagen's oldest and most popular public garden – and makes the perfect spot to hunker down in the shade with a tasty picnic. In the height of summer there are puppet shows and free music concerts to accompany your sandwich.
Jump on a bike
Launched in 1995, Copenhagen was the very first city to offer free bikes to the public. The scheme is still going strong today – and with most of the city centre given over to pedestrians and cyclists, it makes for a pleasant, stress-free ride, whether you come in summer, winter or in between. At one of the 110 bike racks available, pop a 20DKK or €2 coin in the machine, pootle around on your bike, and when you're finished you'll get your coin back.
Thinking of planning a trip to Copenhagen? We can help! Try our new Rough Guides tailor-made travel service and enjoy a custom trip designed just for you by a vetted local expert.
Hit the beach
With so much sea water around, it's not surprising that Copenhagen has a clutch of fine-looking beaches: Amager Strand (5km from the centre; take the metro to Amager Strand or Femøren, or bus #12), Bellevue Beach (S-train to Klampenborg Station) and Charlottenlund (bus #14) are long swathes of powder-white sand lapped by invitingly clear, blue water.
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Swim in the Islands Brugge
In the summer months (June–Aug), plunge into the clean, fresh waters of Islands Brugge, a fashionable harbour-front swimming pool, just near the city centre in Indre By.
Wander round Christiana
A former barracks colonized by hippies and controversially declared a "free city" in 1971, Christiana sits to the west of the city centre, in the borough of Christianshavn. Colourful, quirky buildings house small businesses, theatres and cafés. There are guided tours around the area (for which you have to pay), one of the most unique things to do in the city, but it's free to stroll round by yourself; just refrain from taking photographs.
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Catch a film outdoors
Film-lovers will be in seventh heaven during the summer months, when there are screenings of classic and contemporary films – both Danish- and English-language – in a variety of the city's parks most evenings. Bring a blanket, a bottle of wine and perhaps some popcorn – a perfect date night for couples.
Watch the Changing of the Guard
Home-sick Londoners might want to head to the Amalienborg Castle on the harbour front to watch the Changing of the Guard – or "Vagtparade" in Danish – which takes place at noon every day. Expect blue trouser-clad soldiers marching round to rousing music, bellowing orders.
Party with the locals
Copenhagen's festival calendar is absolutely jam-packed during the summer. There are free jazz concerts, fashion shows, dance performances, art exhibitions, city walks, Copenhagen Gay Pride (mid-August), sports matches - the list goes on. Most atmospheric are the Midsummer Night's Eve celebrations in June, when hundreds of bonfires are lit in various spots in and around the city at night, and crowds feast on barbecued meat and everyone enjoys a great big sing-song.
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Slander Delivers Massive "Potions" Remix Package & Twitch Livestream
Sydney Grant
Listen to the remix package of Slander and Said The Sky's "Potions" and tune in this Friday for a special re-run of their EDC Las Vegas 2018 set!
Our favorite LA-based heaven trap duo is back today with an absolutely massive remix package via Monstercat. Derek Anderson and Scott Land, aka Slander, have gifted us all with an 11-track remix album for their hit single with Said The Sky called "Potions." This release follows the acoustic version of the track that they dropped just last March, only adding to the hype that's been building around this instant-classic since it was first unveiled.
The remix album features a diverse array of some of Monstercat's hottest up-and-coming producers, including Au5, Hekler, Danny Olson, and more. Although 11 versions of the same track might sound like a recipe for repetition, the best part about this album is its variation from artist to artist. Au5's remix offers a sped-up take on the song, for example, whereas Danny Olson's opts for a more drawn out melody and TYNAN delivers even more bass-fueled goodness.
And for those of you who can never quite get enough Slander, you'll also be able to tune in to a special livestream this Friday night.
Joined by fellow Gud Vibrations friend NGHTMRE, they'll be watching along with fans as they stream their B2B EDC Las Vegas 2018 set straight from Slander's Twitch Channel! If you weren't there to witness it in person (and even if you were), you're not going to want to miss this stream. Guaranteed to kick off your weekend in a big way, this set is the ultimate way to spend your Friday night in!
Give the Potions (Remixes) on Spotify below or on your preferred platform, and make sure to tune into the livestream via Slander's Twitch at 7 PM PT this Friday!
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Sydney attributes her love for music from her mom, who insisted on playing The Foo Fighters and The White Stripes rather than Kiss FM whenever she drove carpool and agreed to allow Sydney to attend Coachella in the eighth grade as long as she could go with her. That first festival only greater affirmed Sydney's passion for the scene, but it was not until 2013 when she attended Swedish House Mafia's One Last Tour concert in Los Angeles that she discovered electronic music. She was hooked instantly and has since attended a total of 23 festivals, with countless concerts in between. Sydney's favorite artists include RL Grime, Jauz, Jai Wolf, Louis The Child, Slander, Bearson and Big Gigantic but she is constantly on the look out for new music and artists to dance to. When she's not scouring the internet for new tracks or grooving at a concert, Sydney studies Journalism and Biology full-time at the University of Oregon.
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Istanbul Modern Cinema starts off the new season with 'Another Russia'
Istanbul Modern Cinema starts off the new season with a program titled "Another Russia". The program focuses on the less well-known side of contemporary Russian cinema, famous for its deep and intricate psychological dramas within the cinema of the 21st century.
Istanbul Modern Cinema will display films from the last decade of genre cinema and films that have gained box office success in Russia despite being less known internationally – many of which that have not been shown in Turkey.
Rather than presenting a depressing and lost Russia, the selection offers diverse films in terms of style and genre, from comedies to thrillers; alternative characters and stories regarding the changing identities of the young population within the quickly globalizing society following the demise of Communism.
For example, Zoology (Zoologiya, 2016) portrays a middle-aged woman with a tail, and her struggle for life. The story of Natasha, who lives with her pious mother in a conservative town, is a representation of all individuals who have been marginalized because they don't fit the norms of society.
Directed by Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov The Man Who Surprised Everyone (Tchelovek Kotorij Udivil Vseh, 2018), is an adaptation of a folk tale, depicted through the story of Egor, a forest keeper living in a poor Siberian village. In the film, Egor decides to change his gender as a means to cheat death, and begins to wear women's clothing and make-up. Another film included in the selection is Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Nebesnye Zheny Lugovykh Mari, 2012) that illustrates folkloric narratives within the culture of Mari through the story of 23 women while it examines pagan rituals.
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In an email announcement Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA) announced a Global Initiative to Support the Iranshah Atashbehram in Udvada, Gujarat, India.
Under the blessing of our Pak IranShah and the esteemed guidance of our Dasturji Khurshed Dastoor, High Priest of IranShah Udvada this Project is officially launched today, December 24, 2017 at the Iranshah Udvada Ustav.
To understand the motto, vision, mission and purpose of this special project, please click on the following link.
Thank you for joining us for this very special Global initiative to support the legacy of Iranshah Udvada, our priceless and timeless heritage.
This initiative which started about 3-months ago, was inspired by our very own Dasturji Khurshed Dastoor and blessed by the selfless support of Meher Amalsad, BPP trustee Noshir Dadrawalla and FEZANA President Homi D. Gandhi.
This was then followed by an outpouring of unconditional Global support from The Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe, Tehran Zartoshti Anjoman, The Incorporated Zoroastrian Charity Funds of Hong Kong, Canton and Macao, The Parsi Zoroastrian Association of South East Asia in Singapore, The World Zoroastrian Organization in United Kingdom, The World Zoroastrian Organization Trust Funds in India, Business Association Of West Australian Zoroastrians, Zoroastrian Association Of Western Australia, Zarathushtrian Association Of New Zealand, Karachi Parsi Anjuman Trust Funds in Pakistan and The Zoroastrian Association of United Arab Emirates in Dubai.
The unique feature of this historic initiative is that it aspires to provide an on going stream of Education, Inspiration and Donation.
Our purpose is to keep this divine flame live and alive through education and inspiration for our future generation and also help to raise donations to maintain and sustain our priceless heritage.
Our vision and mission is to make Udvada a global center for showcasing our Zarthushti heritage, culture, and way of life.
So with that special sentiment…we ask you all to please join hands, let's get together, and show this world the power of our Zarthushti unity with dignity to promote the divinity of Iranshah.
May The Divine Light Of Iranshah Shine on our community and humanity.
Thank you and May Ahura Mazda Bless Us All.


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NEW DELHI: A small house on wheels with all the electrical appliances used in a typical household — but all powered by rooftop solar panels and within approachable budget — the Solar Comet was flagged off on the World Environment Day for a 20-day tour.
The solar bus is expected to bust myths and create awareness about solar power. Lit up with power saving LED bulbs, the Solar Comet with its modern fixtures houses mobile charging points, a mixer grinder, an air cooler, a refrigerator, washing machine and even an air conditioner. While the temperature outside soared beyond 40 degrees Celsius, the mini-house with necessary furniture has an ambient environment.
"This project fitted with a 2 kilowatt rooftop panel demonstrates how solar power can easily run an entire household — even heavier appliances like air conditioner," said Pujarini Sen, climate and energy campaigner, Greenpeace India.
"Another myth about solar power is that it is expensive. But in the last three years alone the installation cost per kilowatt of such panel has come down from around Rs 1 lakh to Rs 50,000. This is the ideal time to go solar," she added.
Delhi's total solar potential is 2,500 MW with a residential potential of 1,250 MW. The official target in Delhi is to reach 1,000 MW worth solar installations by 2020 and 2,000 MW by 2025. But as of December 2016, only 35.9 MW have been installed out of which, only 3 MW were residential installations in March 2016.
"The Delhi government came up with the city's solar policy last year. But despite the benefits that it offers, Delhiites haven't really woken up to the idea. Till now the response has been very low residential sectors," Sen said.
The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) offers a 30% national incentive for installing a solar power panel. Besides this, grid connectivity through net metering allows a consumer to sell the excess amount of electricity generated to the main grid and save up on their power bills.
"One can break even on their investment in four to five years. The solar panels have a life of 25 years and require very low maintenance," Sen added, giving example of Pankaj Rajpal, a senior citizen, who managed to reduce the expenses from Rs 8,500 per month to Rs 1,200 p/m by installing a 5KW solar system in his Kailash Colony residence.
Director of Energy Programme at TERI Giritsh Sethi, who flagged off the bus, hoped that by roping in RWAs directly the comet will be able to bring in a change.
Roof rights are a common problem faced by people living in apartments, where the rooftop is usually owned by the family living on the top floor. "In such cases, the RWAs can take a collective decision to install a solar power system in the common areas of the colony. Residents of Rishi Apartments in Alaknanda have pledged to install a 21 KW solar system," said Sen.


Sick of feeling like a bag of bricks after flying between time zones? You're not alone. Jet lag is a problem that affects thousands of flyers every day, but for those frequent business travelers and eager vacationers, there are ways to beat it.
First things first, crossing more time zones or traveling eastward generally increases the time it takes to adapt. For example, a traveler departing from San Francisco to Boston will generally be more out-of-sorts than a traveler heading from Boston to San Francisco.
Want to figure out how long your jet lag will last? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a formula, of sorts. After eastward flights, jet lag lasts for the number of days equal to two-thirds the number of time zones crossed. So if you crossed three time zones, jet lag might last two days. After westward flights, the number of days is roughly half the number of time zones – meaning if you crossed three time zones, jet lag might hang around for 1.5 days.
Look for flights with layovers. Napping during this buffer zone might help align your body's clock.
Adjust your sleep schedule to fit the time zone that you're traveling to. When venturing into a new time zone, our circadian rhythms remain on their original schedule for several days, leaving us drowsy. So, prepare your body for the change by pushing your schedule one hour back or forward, depending on where you're going. This will give your body a chance to gradually ease into the new time zone.
Get a good night's sleep before the flight. Feeling rested prior to take-off will help you avoid arriving exhausted.
Pack a sleeping mask and earplugs. Pull the blinders over the sun pouring through the window and tune out that crying baby with these useful travel accessories.
Stick to water. Coffee and alcohol can throw off your sleep schedule.
Stay comfortable by dressing in loose clothing and stretching during the commute. Getting up to move around will get the blood flowing, helping to prevent stiffness.
Go to bed when the locals do. If this means holding your eyelids open with hairpins, do it. Well, maybe not, but try your best to adjust to the destination's clocks as soon as possible.
Minimize light exposure and noise levels at your airport hotel room. Set the mood for sleep with quiet, mind-soothing darkness.
Aim to sleep as many hours as you would at home. If you want to be ready-to-go on vacation, refuel your body with the right amount of slumber.
Watch your foods. Eat easily digestible meals on the first night to aid sleep.


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**If you encounter any issues, please don't hesitate
to [report
them](https://github.com/leotiger/grav-plugin-backup-manager/issues).**

> Enhanced backup for your Grav instance

## Why is user driven backup important?

Users of emerging projects like Grav need freedom. Backup and archive facilities that work
hazzle-free, offer confidence. Pages, content, media: users want to be free, easy...
But it's not only about opportunities and freedom, this backup manager offers a lot to
admins as well. And there's more to come if this plugin receives some positive feedback!

And yeah: invited to contribute!

## Introduction

Grav provides backup out of the box but offers no control over the process.
This plugin offers a Grav backup compatible solution that offers you some
nice extra features:

* backup scopes
* test mode
* additional folder and file type ignores
* file type restrictions (at the moment only via cli)
* storage administration
* latest backups
* purging
* clean up of failed backups
* enhanced cli
* access to a reduced set of options for non super users
* etc., etc.

## Configuration

You can customize the backup process for your instance in the settings of the
plugin. Backup Manager facilitates a test mode that allows you to adapt "THE MOTHER OF
ALL BACKUPS FOR GRAV" (a joke) to your environment, low resources, you control, you
restrict. With scopes you dispose of predefined backup sets. If you need support,
just stuff all into a partial "config backup" by using the "Config" scope. Backup
Manager packs now all your configurations, the content of the root folder and a file
with the phpinfo into a backup archive.

Existing backup scopes:

* admin
* defaults
* config
* pages
* user
* media
* images
* audio
* video
* log
* plugins
* themes
* imagecache
* cache
* data
* system

Defined purging scopes:

* purge
* purgeall
* purgepartial
* purgetests
* purgepages
* purgeimages
* purgemedia
* purgethemes
* purgedata
* purgeplugins
* purgeconfig
* purgesystem
* purgefailed

The default purge context runs during every backup process and works on the basis of your settings
for the Backup Manager for capacity and the days you want to keep backups.

## Installation

Download the [ZIP
archive](https://github.com/leotiger/grav-plugin-backup-manager/archive/master.zip)
from GitHub and extract it to the `user/plugins` directory in your Grav
installation. And if suited it may appear on the GRAV plugin site with some installation
support out of the box in the future...

## CLI

This plugin inludes support for cli and thus for automization. CLI allows for additional
options. Investigate. Not all is fail-safe, but a lot of the stuff works well.

One of the nice CLI features: you can specify "free" folders and a lot of them, all to
be included in a backup, doesn't matter where they are in the Grav instance...
(Hope all this works good enough to maintain your interest, I didn't had the time to test
all of the features thoroughly: one man out on a mother sea today...

## Credits

You will find some known code. This is due to the fact that the first goal was to offer
a core enhancement for Grav itself. But this approach needs a lot of coordination with
the Grav people. Difficult. Finally the decision to make a plugin out of this may have
more pros than cons. Nevertheless, I obliged myself to work hard on core compatible code
that allows for an easy integration of backup functionality.

## Known Issues

This is still a baby, a zero version. For this reason issues are expected. But you can be
sure that Backup Manager is already doing a good job! Before spending more time on this,
I would appreciate feedback. If a something like this is needed... The communication of
issues helps as a strong indicator for that... If you have an issue, let us know. Same
thing goes for proposals and ideas.

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Q: How to get multi class confidence score from fine tuned bert model? I have used pretrained bert model for intent classification(uncased_L-12_H-768_A-12). The model showing the output as a predicted intent. Below is the code of how i am getting prediction:
sentences = ["i want to open a bank account"]
pred_tokens = map(tokenizer.tokenize, sentences)
pred_tokens = map(lambda tok: ["[CLS]"] + tok + ["[SEP]"], pred_tokens)
pred_token_ids = list(map(tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids, pred_tokens))
pred_token_ids = map(
    lambda tids: tids +[0]*(data.max_seq_len-len(tids)),
    pred_token_ids)
pred_token_ids = np.array(list(pred_token_ids))
predictions = model.predict(pred_token_ids).argmax(axis=-1)
for text, label in zip(sentences, predictions):
    print("text:", text, "\nintent:", classes[label])
    print()

The output is:
text: I want to open a bank account
intent: open_account

Now I want to get the confidence score of the text intent, for example:
intent: open_account
confidence score: 98.30

A: Calling model.predict(pred_token_ids) returns so-called logits, i.e., unnormalized probability distribution over the target classes. You can normalize it by doing a softmax over the logits, i.e., F.softmax(logits, axis=-1) (see [PyTorch documentation for more details).
You can then get the confidence simply by getting the probability corresponding to the prediction.

A: i have solved the problem. i have write a function to find the confidence of each class:
new_pred = model.predict(pred_token_ids)

def get_final_output(pred, classes):
    predictions = pred[0]

    classes = np.array(classes)
    ids = np.argsort(-predictions)
    classes = classes[ids]
    predictions = -np.sort(-predictions)

    for i in range(pred.shape[1]):
        print("%s has confidence = %s" % (classes[i], (predictions[i]*100)))

now call the function, here classes is the list of unique class name we want to predict.
#classes = train.intent.unique().tolist()

get_final_output(new_pred,classes)

the output will be confidence score of each class.

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You never expect that someone you love could be struggling alone with their mental health. And you can never predict that one day, you'll wake up, and your loved one will be gone.
January 29th 2014, was the last time I saw my father. He said to me "turn down your music, I've got an important day tomorrow". I didn't think much of it at the time, so I did what he asked and I went to bed. I was awoken in the morning by my frantic mother who told me that my father had tried to end his life last month and she was worried he was trying to again. It didn't register at first, I loved my father so much - how could he be missing? It just didn't make sense. Soon after, I got this image of my father ending his life… I knew then that it was too late but I did what I could to hold on and hope.
Today I've found peace with my father's death, and I can now live a life that's relatively comfortable. Sometimes I even feel happy, although not having my father around to share my joy can make me sad from time-to-time. I can't help but ask myself questions: What if my dad had tried to talk to me? What If I'd talked to him? If we'd had an open conversation with each other? Or if he'd just spoken to someone? Would he still be here?
These days, we're all so busy that we forget to check-in on our loved ones. I suppose we live in a bubble expecting no harm to come their way, just expecting them to always be there… The sad reality is that suicide can affect anyone; and anyone can fall victim to mental health.
I do a lot to raise awareness around mental health on Twitter and also through my writing. I want to get people talking about mental health and by doing so, encourage those with suicidal thoughts to confide in someone. That's why I always keep my messages open as I never want someone to feel alone.
I've learnt that it's impossible to change the past. I can't bring my father back and it doesn't help me to dwell on it. However, that's not to say that I can't use my experiences to speak out and hopefully prevent future suicide victims. I find that helping others to talk is therapeutic for me, and doubly rewarding.
My biggest goal has always been to help people speak up about their mental health. In the past, I've struggled to talk to people about my feelings. In fact, I'd become so angry and confused with my emotions that it made me ill, and I abused substances and self-harmed to deal with how overwhelmed I felt. At one point, I even tried to end my life (something my father never knew). But I didn't have to go through all that pain alone. And I didn't have to damage my body… It might not seem like it, but there's always someone out there who will listen and help you through the tough times.
Following my father's death, a vital part of my recovery from the grief i felt I found through opening up. I now allow myself to be honest - because frankly there's no need to be ashamed. I am who I am and it's pretty amazing that I am still standing strong. This is the message I try to send to others who are suffering the same. Just waking up in the morning is an amazing thing - and we should always to remember that.
When I spoke to a therapist in the midst of a crisis, she told me that all this physical pain and my heavy emotions are just a natural response to what I have been through. I found this realisation calming and it made me think, did my father ever get told this? Sadly, we both shared troubled childhoods and yet we both kept it quiet and suffered alone. The difference being that I was able to talk about it, and I'm not sure he ever did.
On that same day, another therapist told me, "We all have mental health, we just deal with it differently"- and that makes so much sense to me. We're all honest about having a cold or a broken leg, so why wouldn't we speak up when our mind is hurting? The truth is, no one is a problem, and likewise no thought is invalid. We just process our lives in different ways and we need to be able to talk about it. In fact, feeling all these emotions is at the very foundation of what it means to be human.
I'm still standing here because I was able to find the help I needed when I wanted to end my life. I here writing this post, and living a life better than I could have imagined. Of course, talking won't solve all of your problems… Mental health is more complicated than that. But it will relieve some of the pressure and stress, and even releasing tears can leave you feeling a stone lighter.
I can't express how much stronger I feel for just talking about what goes in on my head. It wasn't easy - it never is easy - but I just took it very slowly, and the more people I spoke to, the more easily these feelings flowed out. Now I write and talk about mental health almost daily and it's like a tap that won't stop leaking, in the best possible way.
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Ah! Sweet Idiocy!
Francis T. Laney
This infamous memoir and polemic about the 1940s Los Angeles fan scene was published in 1948. The first ebook edition was finalized and added to the TAFF site on 1 April 2019. Cover painting of Francis T. Laney by Dan Steffan (previously unpublished). 85,000 words of Laney plus 18,000 of additional material for a total of 103,000 words.
Please be warned that a few passages display a level of homophobia perhaps excessive even by 1948 standards.
Francis Towner Laney's many brief and often affectionate character sketches of contemporaries may be of more interest now than all the fiery rhetoric about political machinations and (gasp) homosexuality in and around the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, a gigantic arena of controversy in which world-shaking elections could be deadlocked with 8 votes to 8. Still-remembered subjects of Laney "vignettes" include Forrest J Ackerman (alternately a close friend and deadly rival), Fritz Leiber, Clark Ashton Smith and A.E. van Vogt, while among his offstage correspondents were Anthony Boucher and August Derleth. Ah! Sweet Idiocy! has always been controversial: Fancyclopedia 3 notes that "Canadian faned Beak Taylor reportedly quit fandom after reading it. Laney himself would not allow it to be reprinted during his lifetime, evidently fearing lawsuits."
David Langford has added brief notes on abbreviations never or only belatedly explained in the text; with help from Robert Lichtman, a summary of its reissues since Laney died; and from Rob Hansen's photo archive, contemporary snapshots of Laney and many other featured fans (Rob has since posted a page of additional LASFS photos). Also included are Harry Warner Jr's 1961 appraisal of Ah! Sweet Idiocy! and Alva Rogers's 1963 rebuttal of the Laney thesis, "FTL & ASI".


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BMW Teams RBM and Schnitzer part ways with BMW Motorsport
Home » Racing » BMW Teams RBM and Schnitzer part ways with BMW Motorsport
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Two long and successful partnerships are coming to an end. BMW Motorsport has dropped another major announcement. BMW Teams RBM and Schnitzer, two of their long-term partners, will not continue racing with the BMW Motorsport factory support. BMW Team RMG will be working with BMW Motorsport to develop the new BMW M4 GT3 in the coming season. BMW Team RMG, that previously was one of the works teams in the DTM and celebrated two driver's titles with Marco Wittmann (GER), will serve as a development team for the new BMW M4 GT3 in the future.
The motorsport world is undergoing massive changes. Audi and BMW are leaving the Formula E championship, as well as DTM racing. The new DTM will become a GT racing series with short and hopefully action-packed sprint races. And that makes them ideal for GT3 race cars which may receive minor adjustments. Features such as a push-to-pass button for short-term additional performance or a drag reduction system rear wing would be conceivable.
After the premature end of the Class 1 DTM, the fields of activity for BMW's works-based presence had to be adapted. Also, in contrast to the current DTM, from 2021 only private teams will be responsible for the use of the vehicles. Although manufacturers are allowed to provide support within certain limits. The new M4 GT3 won't be fully ready until the 2022 season, but BMW could run the M4 in its pre-homologation form in the 2021 DTM to showcase its capabilities to potential customers. If that happens, the car will not be classified in the official race results.
BMW Team RBM has made a major contribution to the fact that BMW became one of the most successful manufacturers in the World Touring Car Championship. Since the return to DTM in 2012, BMW Team RBM has been one of the BMW works teams in the series and claimed nine race victories.
Of course, it's the Schnitzer Motorsport's departure that comes as a surprise. Since the 1960s, Schnitzer Motorsport has been one of the most influential and successful teams in the world of international GT and touring car racing – always with BMW race cars. BMW Team Schnitzer has forever earned an important place in BMW history, thanks to many prestigious national and international triumphs in renowned championships and at legendary endurance races, like those at the Nürburgring and at Le Mans.
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Q: call non-static class method with dynamic class name Right now I'm solving the problem like this:
    switch($action)
    {
      case "get":

        if("sections" == $table){
          echo $get->nested();
        }

        else {
          echo $get->elements();
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      break;

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In the past I've called Burton a "limited" actor because, for one thing, he lacked training. But Burton did arguably stand fast all those years, playing a character absurdly written to be some sort of daytime icon: a murderer who usually saved everyone in town, and was viewed by former headwriter Bob Guza as a living saint. With his trademark black tee-shirt, bulging muscles and gun frequently in hand, Jason as written by Guza was the ultimate hero as he murdered at least nine people over the years.


Kerem Yavuz Demirbas acaba de defender, na Universidade de Copenhaga, a sua tese de Mestrado com o título «Towards a new understand of games: Auteur Game Criticism».
This thesis examines the adaptability and applicability of auteur theory to video games. Auteur theory is used as a critical method to analyze films as art works and can be applied to video games. Video games are not only commodities which are used only for entertainment purposes, they can also be considered as works of art. This analysis defines games in the field of popular art and focuses on different dimensions of games, such as simulation, software, rule-based system in relation to the potential of games as art works. The analysis of art and video games relationship focuses on the different valorization methods of art works and the art value of games in different perspectives. After studying art and video games relationship, I present the historical background and key concepts of auteur theory. Starting with the transformation of artisan as craftsmen to artist, theories around auteur as film artist are examined. The changes of the theory, the effects of the theory in different times and places, and different uses are introduced to draw the borders of the auteur concept. The impact of auteur to the field of games and theories around authorial methods of game making comes next. I criticize the idea of promoting game makers to auteur level and then I propose the use of auteur theory as a criticism method. Instead of defining game auteur as a genius artist I suggest to revaluate games and reality relationship. Then, to develop the auteur game criticism I examine expressive uses and possibilities, also narrative and formal aspects of video games. Differently from the original auteur theory, I define the possibility of player as auteur. After the reconceptualization of auteur theory, I propose an example of how this criticism method could be applied to video games. I take Gonzalo Frasca as an auteur and criticize his games. I use both game elements defined as aesthetic variables in the control of game auteur, and also Frasca's own perspective and methods described in his writings.


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namespace AppBundle\Entity;

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use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Symfony\Bridge\Doctrine\Validator\Constraints\UniqueEntity;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\AdvancedUserInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

/**
 * @ORM\Table(name="user")
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="AppBundle\Repository\UserRepository")
 * @UniqueEntity("email")
 */
class User implements AdvancedUserInterface, \Serializable
{
    const ROLE_DEFAULT = 'ROLE_USER';
    const NUM_ITEMS = 10;

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     * @ORM\Column(name="first_name", type="string", length=255)
     * @Assert\NotBlank(message="Please enter your first name.")
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     *     min=2,
     *     max=255,
     *     minMessage="The name is too short.",
     *     maxMessage="The name is too long.",
     * )
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    /**
     * @ORM\Column(name="last_name", type="string", length=255)
     * @Assert\NotBlank(message="Please enter your last name.")
     * @Assert\Length(
     *     min=2,
     *     max=255,
     *     minMessage="The name is too short.",
     *     maxMessage="The name is too long.",
     * )
     */
    private $lastName;

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     * The company of the user.
     *
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     *
     * @ORM\Column(name="company", type="string", length=255)
     * @Assert\NotBlank(message="Please enter your company's name.")
     */
    private $company;

    /**
     * The strains for this user.
     *
     * @var Strain|ArrayCollection
     *
     * @ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="AppBundle\Entity\Strain", mappedBy="users")
     */
    private $strains;

    /**
     * @ORM\Column(name="session_id", type="string", length=255, nullable=true)
     */
    private $sessionId;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->roles = [];
        $this->enabled = false;
        $this->strains = new ArrayCollection();
    }

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    {
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    }

    /**
     * Set email.
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     * @param $email
     *
     * @return $this
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    public function setEmail($email)
    {
        $this->email = $email;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Get email.
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     * @return string
     */
    public function getEmail()
    {
        return $this->email;
    }

    /**
     * Get username.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getUsername()
    {
        return $this->email;
    }

    /**
     * Set plain password.
     *
     * @param $password
     */
    public function setPlainPassword($password)
    {
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    }

    /**
     * Get plain password.
     *
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     */
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    {
        return $this->plainPassword;
    }

    /**
     * Set password.
     *
     * @param $password
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function setPassword($password)
    {
        $this->password = $password;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Get password.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getPassword()
    {
        return $this->password;
    }

    /**
     * Get salt.
     */
    public function getSalt()
    {
        return null;
    }

    /**
     * Set roles.
     *
     * @param $array
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function setRoles($array)
    {
        $this->roles = $array;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Add role.
     *
     * @param $role
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function addRole($role)
    {
        $role = mb_strtoupper($role);
        if ($role === static::ROLE_DEFAULT) {
            return $this;
        }

        if (!in_array($role, $this->roles, true)) {
            $this->roles[] = $role;
        }

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Remove role.
     *
     * @param $role
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function removeRole($role)
    {
        if (false !== $key = array_search(mb_strtoupper($role), $this->roles, true)) {
            unset($this->roles[$key]);
            $this->roles = array_values($this->roles);
        }

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Has role.
     *
     * @param $role
     *
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The City of International Falls' City Council convened a special meeting as Canvassing Board held in the Council Chambers of the Municipal Building on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, at the hour of 2:05 P.M.
The tally sheets were reviewed by the Canvassing Board.
Upon review and consideration of the tally sheets for the three (3) voting Wards of the City, presented by the Deputy City Administrator, and canvassing of the returns, the consensus of the City Council as the Canvassing Board is to accept the returns.
MOTION by Councilor Krause to accept and approve the number of votes cast for the November 6, 2018 general election results for each of the three Wards as attached; and furthermore, hereby declare Leon Ditsch as Councilor-elect East Ward, Joseph Krause, Jr. as Councilor-elect Center Ward, and Walt Buller as Councilor-elect West Ward. Motion seconded by Councilor Jaksa and carried unanimously. The Abstract and Return of Votes Cast certification document was distributed for signing and all members present of the City Council executed the document (see attached).
There were presented affidavits of posting of a Notice of Election held in accordance with the resolutions adopted on August 6, 2018 and/or September 17, 2018, authorizing said election to vote on the question of imposing a sales and use tax for the purpose of defraying the expense of the transportation and infrastructure projects. Said affidavits and returns were duly examined, approved and ordered placed on file in the office of the City Administrator.
and said proposition, having received the approval of a majority of the votes cast thereon, is hereby declared to have carried.
Adopted on November 13, 2018, by the International Falls City Council.
Betty Bergstrom publicly thanked all the election judges and staff for their good work and dedication during the election. Mayor Anderson affirmed the Council's thanks and appreciation to Ms. Bergstrom, judges and staff.
Administrator Anderson also recognized Ms. Bergstrom and Emma Rud for their support and coordination of election activities with Bob Peterson, Koochiching County Auditor.
Councilor Center Ward Joseph Krause, Jr.
Mayor Anderson adjourned the Canvassing Board meeting at 2:21 P.M.
Attachment: 2018 General Election for City of International Falls, Original Abstract and Return of the Votes Cast.


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Plan your trip to India
24 Hours in Kolkata
Kolkata offers a rich mix of Hindu, British, and Bengali culture that you won't find anywhere else in India. Once the capital of the British Raj, it has enough to keep you busy for weeks—or a single day, if that's all you have. Read on to find out how to spend a perfect morning, afternoon, and evening in this sprawling city.
Planning Your Honeymoon in India
From the famously erotic temple carvings at Khajuraho to star-crossed lovers in today's Bollywood films, India is in love with romance—and it has the honeymoon spots to show for it. The country rolls out the red carpet to honor the newly betrothed, so even if you didn't have a destination wedding, you can still have an Indian honeymoon.
24 Hours in Delhi
One day just isn't enough to cover everything in sprawling Delhi—but you'll find that 24 hours is plenty of time to fall in love with this beautiful and surprising city. Discover the Indian capital on a whirlwind tour of historic temples, chaotic bazaars, and aromatic street food stands.
Family Travel in India
With delicious food, rich cultures, and stunning scenery, India has plenty of opportunities for unforgettable family adventures. You can meet rescued elephants in an animal sanctuary or celebrate cultural festivals like Holi or Diwali. From the misty tea plantations of Darjeeling to the colorful markets of Mumbai, this vibrant and diverse country makes for an awe-inspiring destination.
When to visit India
India in January: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
India in January is cool and dry. While some regions, like the mountainous Himalaya, experience freezing cold nighttime temperatures during this month, most of the country is only a few degrees cooler than usual. Winter provides a respite from the blazing heat of summer and the wetness of the monsoon. For this reason, it's often considered an ideal time to visit.
India in February: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
In February, winter in India is nearing its end. Most of the country is reasonably cool and dry at this time. While the weather is pleasant in February, there are fewer visitors than in December and January, making this a good month to beat the crowds.
India in March: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
March is when temperatures in North India begin to climb. This is the last month of the shoulder season, before the north succumbs to the blazing heat of summer, and South India edges closer to the monsoon. However, the warmer weather makes this a great time to visit the Himalayas, and both Mumbai and Goa are pleasant and dry.
India in April: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
By April, the peak travel season is over in much of India. Temperatures are rising in North India and Tamil Nadu, and rain in Kerala is increasingly frequent. However, there are still some great places to visit this month—high season is just beginning in the Himalaya, Mumbai is still pleasant and dry, and it's an ideal time for tiger-spotting in India's national parks.
India in May: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
The month of May is firmly in the middle of India's blazing summer. Temperatures in both North and South India are at their peak, so it's a good month to retreat to the mountains and escape the heat. While there won't be many foreign travelers to compete with, this is summer vacation in India and there's a spike in domestic tourism—you'll want to book your hilltop retreat in advance.
India in June: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
June is the off-season in India: Delhi and the north are hot, while South and Northeast India are experiencing heavy rains. If you don't mind braving the heat or the damp, this can be a good time to take advantage of reduced crowds and lower prices. Plus, there are cultural festivals in Kerala, Varanasi, and elsewhere to enjoy throughout the month, rain or shine.
India in July: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
July is India's off-season due to the rainy and wet weather. Across most Indian states, the monsoon is in full swing; rain falls every few days at this time of year. This is a good time to visit some of India's drier areas, such as the historic cities of Rajasthan or Tamil Nadu's ancient temples.
India in August: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
Across most of India, August is firmly at the heart of the monsoon season. With hot, wet weather in both the north and south of the country, crowds and prices will be low at this time of year. To avoid the rain, you can travel out to the desert of Rajasthan, or head up to the high mountains of Ladakh for a cooler, drier respite.
India in September: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
By September, the monsoon is starting to dry up in parts of India. With light rain in Delhi and Rajasthan and fewer crowds than in the winter, this is a great month to visit the attractions of the Golden Triangle. Hot spots like the Taj Mahal will be quiet, with great visibility, and you can expect shoulder season prices in most of the country.
India in October: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
October is the beginning of peak season in most of India. Falling temperatures and less rain make this a good time to visit Delhi and the Golden Triangle, before the heavy mist of December and January. The rain is also receding in Kolkata and West Bengal, and the attractions of Rajasthan will be pleasant and dry.
India in November: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
November is well into peak season in India. At this point, the monsoon rains have cleared, and the mists of December and January haven't yet set in around Delhi. West Bengal, Rajasthan, and parts of South India are also cooler and drier than usual, making this a great month for sightseeing all over the country.
India in December: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
Although some areas, like the Himalaya, are freezing cold at night in December, the climate elsewhere ranges from pleasantly warm in Delhi to quite hot in Mumbai and Kerala. In Tamil Nadu, the Northeast Monsoon will be winding down at this time; pack a raincoat if you plan to travel there. And if a celebratory atmosphere is what you're after, there's no shortage of festivals, including the Tibetan Lunar New Year.


Johnny and Koby's hooman daddy had been sick for a very long time. His family was hopeful for his return home so they boarded the bonded brothers at their local vet clinic. Weeks turned into months but their Daddy never came home and recently became their guardian angel in heaven. The family called and asked if we could please re-home these two sweet brothers after they had spent NINE months at the vet clinic. An unbelievable amount of time but these two handled this situation with a very happy, go lucky demeanor much to our delight. They both needed a good grooming and bath as they were horribly matted and we want to thank Brooke at Paws & Reflect Pet Salon for doing such a fabulous job with them (First pic is their Before & After). They also went straight to our vet for blood work and dentals. Johnny's blood work was spot on and normal. So now the boys moved on to their new foster home so we could get to know them a bit better as the only person who truly "knew" them is no longer walking this earth.
"So let me tell you a little something about these two sweet little boys. All they want to do is please you and be loved! The minute they walked into our house they were like excited little puppies. Running all over the place finally having freedom. They were two silly little guys out in the backyard just running back-and-forth. One would never guess they are 11 years old…they had energy to burn. They love to go on walks and mind really well on the lead.
Boy oh boy, are these little guys ever bonded. They do everything together… They go outside together, they sleep together, they eat out of the same bowl, they sleep side by side and take turns grooming each other. They LOVE to help out in the kitchen (treats, treats, treats)!
They both are lover buttons… Johnny may be a little more so than his brother Koby. They absolutely love children that are 5 and older… They just jump all over the place and get so excited when our grandkids come over to visit. Talk about the zoomies! Johnny does this adorable little bark/howl trying to get the kids to play with him! It's too cute! They are also very good watchdogs… If anybody comes near your house or to the front door they will let you know with alarm barking but when you tell them to stop barking they mind and will do so.
They will go to the door to go out sometimes but seeing as though they have been in a kennel for nine months you do need to keep an eye out and help them to remember to go to the door. (They have had a few accidents) They are doing better as their memories are being "refreshed".
They both sleep together in the same crate and you never hear a peep out of them all night long. It is adorable when you get up in the morning and look in the crate — they're side-by-side just sitting there looking at you waiting to be let out. They are snuggle bunnies and love blankets! They like to rough them up and just roll around in them. Love to sit by your side while watching TV and get all the love they can.


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HOME ► ARTICLES ► GENETIC ENGINEERING ARTICLES ► Monsanto's Michael Taylor Chosen by Obama to Head Food Safety
Monsanto's Michael Taylor is BAAAAACC...KKK ... this time to control "Food Safety" from the White House
by Linn Cohen-Cole
Michael Taylor, perhaps stowed away in Hillary Clinton's trunk as a nostalgic reminder of the good ole days when Bill put him in charge of the FDA and he approved rBGH, has reentered government along with her. He slipped onto Obama's transition team somehow (just how?) and is now hoping to slip into an office ... in the White House.
What would he do there, he who subjected this country and many others to the increased risk of breast cancer (7 times greater risk), prostate and colon cancer because of what he did to milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream with rBGH as well as to all the foods that rely on milk solids and other parts of milk? Why, over see "food safety."
Food Democracy Now wants people to "[w]rite Secretary Vilsack ( ) and tell him to stand strong on food safety."
But isn't that the same Vilsack who has no record on food safety, a strong record of support for Monsanto and genetic engineering, and oversaw a huge increase in CAFOs in Iowa and the loss of thousands of small farmers? How is he supposed to "stand strong" on something he has never stood on before and actually supports the opposite of? And he's Monsanto's boy and the guy who dreamed up the Monsanto laws that preemptively remove democracy from communities wishing to control what is planted on them or how farms are used.
Food Democracy Now describes Taylor as:
"Michael Taylor, a former Monsanto executive, whose career literally fits the definition of the revolving door between government, lobbying and corporate interests. Before serving on the Obama ag transition team, Taylor made a name for himself rotating in and out of law firms, Monsanto, the USDA and FDA. While at the FDA he helped write the rules to allow rBGH into the American food system and our childrens milk.
They go on to say "We need a food safety system with some teeth - one that is independent of corporate interests," yet, mysteriously, they have not even mentioned or yet opposed the bogus "food safety" bills that Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, and giant surveillance companies want which are designed to destroy our farmers and give control of the US food supply and control of US farmland to multinationals.
Deborah Bryceson of Oxford UK calls it de-peasantization the phasing out of traditional family farms to make fertile farmland available for intensive capital accumulation using factory farming.
Third world countries were the original target, now it is our turn.
Food Democracy Now wants people to write "Secretary Vilsack and ask him to reconsider these decisions" but they don't seem to have the picture yet: There is a huge plan in place for Monsanto to take over control of all food in the US. Vilsack was potentially put in at the USDA to help.
Putting Michael Taylor back in charge of food is likely the deal that Obama struck to get her to stop her incessant "running" - let the Clinton's Monsanto connections back into government with her, this time with monstrously centralized power. This centralization of the FDA and USDA into a "Food Safety" department was one of Hillary Clinton's major platforms while standing at her side was her campaign strategist and long term advisor, Mark Penn, CEO of Burson-Marsteller, a major (and reviled) PR firm for Monsanto.
It appears that Food Democracy Now is being played by Vilsack and as they focus on him and what he does, good or bad, they accidentally distract the whole organic community from the most massive danger we have ever faced - a take over of our food supply through those bogus "food safety" bills. I believe the timing on Merrigan's appointment was chosen to distract progressives until the bills have been shoved through, and then, additionally to throw people off-guard, Vilsack goes and makes a PC speech on civil rights.
Burson-Marsteller is not one of the largest PR firms in the world for being inept at staging things - right now they are likely helping to direct everyone's attention away from the bills. And, to keep people busy, meanwhile, the USDA is going through the motions of asking for comments on NAIS which they have no intention to listening to (though our filing comments is incredibly important because we'll have numbers to indicate how much this matters.
Take action -- click here to contact your local newspaper or congress people:
Stop HR 875, and related bills and expose legislators tied to Monsanto.
Click here to see the most recent messages sent to congressional reps and local newspapers
Met libertarian and conservative farmers and learned an incredible amount about farming and nature and science, as well as about government violations against them and against us all. The other side of the fence is nothing like what we've been (more...)
OBAMA: Just Another Crooked Washington Insider
On Tuesday, July 7, 2009, Barack Obama sold
his soul to Monsanto while America's media were
busy covering one of history's major news events:
the funeral of the century.
Monsanto has succeeded in getting their ex-attorney
Michael Taylor into the highest echelon of the Obama
Administration. Barack Obama made this decision days
after his election victory, but needed a major story
such as Michael Jackson's shocking death to pull the
veil over America's eyes. He waited nearly eight
months to do the dirty deed, hoping that it would
not spark controversy. Hoping that nobody would
notice. Let today's Notmilk column strike the match.
I plan on manufacturing a new bumper sticker
which will read:
"Blame me. I voted for him."
I first suspected something was wrong when Barack Obama
claimed that he visited 57 of the 59 States during his
presidential campaign. See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
But still, I voted for him.
I voted for him and it was too late to have second thoughts.
On his first day in office, President Barack Obama set
new ethic rules for his administration. Obama signed
an executive order prohibiting that "revolving door"
policy we've so often witnessed in the past. A policy
which allowed Monsanto (developer of the genetically
engineered bovine growth hormone) to send their
scientists and attorneys to high level jobs in
the FDA and USDA where regulations favorable to
Monsanto were enacted. That revolving door swung
both ways, and more than one ex-FDA commissioner
went to work for Monsanto after his tenure.
In issuing new Presidential Directives, Obama said,
"We should never forget that we are here as public
servants and public service is a privilege...Public
service is, simply and absolutely, about advancing
the interests of Americans."
Don't believe it.
Mr. Obama: Your honeymoon is over. I wanted
to believe that things would be different with you
at the helm. In fact, today you demonstrated that it's
just gonna be more of the same. The concept of CHANGE
you spoke about during your campaign is clearly how
many ways a lobbyist will be able to make change for
a dollar while working with your appointees.
Two attorneys from MONSANTO'S law firm (King & Spalding)
played interesting roles in American history. One was
Clarence Thomas, now on the Supreme Court (talk about
swing votes!) The second was Michael Taylor who left the
"firm" to work at FDA where he wrote the biotechnology
laws that do not require a warning label on a carton of
milk to identify the "new genetically engineered milk."
I have said for the past year that if Michael Taylor
becomes an important part of the Obama administration,
that is a warning signal to me that we've blown it.
Folks? We've blown it.
Although Michael Taylor was the man most responsible
for writing the policies which shaped Monsanto's lies
regarding genetically engineered milk, FDA Commissioner
Hamburg said this about Taylor's appointment:
" "His expertise and leadership on food safety issues
will help the agency to develop and implement the
prevention-based strategy we need to ensure the
safety of the food we eat."
Yesterday, while using the Michael Jackson story as
his hidden ball trick, the Obama administration quietly
announced that Michael Taylor is returning to the
Food and Drug Administration as the senior advisor to
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg.
Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com


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Tue Jan 19 5:59pm ET
MIAMI, Fla. (AP) A South Florida-based performance facility founded by former star wide receiver Brandon Marshall will try to help fill the void left by the NFL not allowing in-person workouts for the scouting combine because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The NFL told its teams Monday that the league won't allow in-person workouts due to health and safety precautions because of COVID-19 concerns. The NFL combine is typically held in Indianapolis in late February. Any workouts this year will take place on the individual pro days on college campuses. Interviews of prospects and psychological testing and assessments will be done virtually.
Marshall said House of Athlete, located in Weston, Florida, is aiming to safely provide a full range of scouting activities and more at its facility.
''We look forward to helping these young players achieve their dreams of playing in the NFL and showcasing our facility at the same time,'' said Marshall, who had 970 receptions over 13 seasons. ''We feel we are one of the best performance venues in the country and we can't wait to bring out the best of these athletes for everyone to see.''
Marshall founded House of Athlete in 2019, and the facility's combine will be run by Mo Wells, HOA's director of pro performance. The combine will cap HOA's Path to the Draft series.
Jon Arnett, star college and NFL running back, dies at 85
NFL won't allow in-person workouts for scouting combine
Bucs designate Vita Vea to return from reserve/injured list
Confident Buccaneers defense reverts to form at right time
Packers get second shot at Bucs with Super Bowl at stake
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