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Which Legal Tools Will You Need for Your End of Life Plan?
Who will help you manage your final care, services and personal assets? Choosing the right legal tools can make all the difference in the world to loved ones after you are gone.
If you are looking for someone to plan your estate, there is a new kind of financial advisor who incorporates both financial planning and elder care expertise into their practices. We found an interesting story that offers details on the trend.
If you've ever said a final goodbye to your pet you know it's among the most difficult of moments. Pets offer us a sense of security, unconditional devotion and cherished company.
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It's often said that a picture paints a thousand words. We agree, especially when it comes to a subject like End of Life.


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Miranda in Juno, by Samantha Louise Talbot/ Sam Lou Talbot
A friend commented on my Instagram "Dancing in My Dressing Gown to Jacqueline du Pré." Said it put her in mind of Miranda July. Provocation over lettuce, and late-night texts. Conversations in kitchens with celebrity friends who'd popped around for a cup of Oolong tea to discuss the latest dilemma (Miranda, not me). An aficionado of constant curation. Inviting the viewer in, mid-conversation. Ambiguous narratives. Personal, even intimate. But not quite. A gauzy beauty, manicured locks, quirky, vata. Zipping about like a dragonfly. But there were slower posts. In one she'd put an empty bottle of soda in between her body, and the lens, and proceeded to pull off her jeans. The shape of the bottle accentuated her derriere. The colour camouflaged her. What a trick.
The next day I went out on the hunt for a similarly green bottle. But it was like the holy grail to find one with both the correct opacity, and the necessary shape. Miranda's wasn't a regular bottle, it had curves. I went in and out of three stores, only to leave disappointed. Her bottle had only a tint of green. All the bottles on offer looked like they were trying too hard. I crouched down in the aisle of the fourth store to witness the effect of wafting my hand in front of one side of a bottle, whilst pressing my iPhone camera against the other. A shop assistant came over and stood behind me, bearing random items in his hand. I opted for a small bottle of San Pellegrino, and went back to the flat to experiment.
When you live in a bachelor's pad, it's always a case of remedying it. Neutral walls. Neutral lounge. Ikea replica black leather sofa resembling a pair of lips. Magnolia overload. I often played with the space to stretch it. Hanging objects vertically. Dangling things. Running Art Deco fabrics from ceiling to floor. Twirling them, by lamp light. I even considered hammering nails lightly into the wall in order to hang a canvas of a painting of a loch on it, before accepting that a loch couldn't easily be hung on nails hammered in lightly. Besides, there'd be a sub-clause against that kind of activity. On the far wall hung two parallel framed prints of anonymous Parisian streets in the rain. I took them down, then put them up, then took them down again, then replaced them with a hat.
I'd been reading up on urban balcony gardens, but once I got going, I couldn't stop. One day, I got back from work only to find soil on the carpet. Naturally, I feared losing my deposit. It began with a clematis. Pretty petunias upped the ante by intermingling with dragonfly plants in my sleep. Trailing Forest ferns led to the bed, tripping me up, on getting up. Aubergine Dahlias crawled into the bathroom, leaving black stems in the plughole of the shower. I complained to the agent, who got back after a few days to ask if I'd tried a drain cleaner. I said I hadn't. On a shelf above the bed lay five pots of Trachelospermum jasminoides. White petals resembled stars. Nativity plays. Myrrh.
I pressed record, and stripped, like Miranda. But the memory on my iPhone was rammed, so I had to record in ten second snippets. Repeat then delete. My red bra blurted out against the San Pelligrino green. Smudged its way in and out of the frame. Could have been anyone. Any woman. Bleeding about in the lush foliage. Jungle floor. Cover. Juno. Post.
Samantha Louise Talbot / Sam Lou Talbot released her debut album "Mer-Made" in July 2018. Her poetry and audio-visual compositions have been published by Burning House Press, and exhibited internationally. She studied Fine Art Painting at Winchester School of Art, and completed an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow in 2011, under Prof. Michael Schmidt. Sam was awarded Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in 2017 for her significant role in effecting change at the University for the Creative Arts. She is currently a Doctoral researcher in Music at the University of Glasgow, and host of a new conversational podcast series on DIY songwriting – 'Sam Lou Uncased' – which can be found online. Sam has been instrumental in establishing the now funded for expansion 'Practice Research Crit Group', an autonomous collective of doctoral students from the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, Glasgow School of Art, and the University of Glasgow, who meet bi-monthly in their homes to share work-in-progress. Sam also hosts the quarterly 'River House Concerts'. // @samloutalbot
Image by Samantha Louise Talbot / Sam Lou Talbot
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Wireless Innovation Forum Top Ten Most Wanted Innovations
Innovation #1: Dynamic Spectrum Management
1.1 Executive Summary
The realization of a fully Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) system powered by cognitive network technology and supported by collaborative intelligent radios[1] is considered a future vision for DSM. In the next decade, it is anticipated that the spectrum management ecosystem will experience a paradigm shift by relying extensively on spectrum knowledge (which will leverage the application of data science (e.g. machine learning and data mining) to spectrum and related data) to perform proactive dynamic spectrum management in order to optimize spectrum utilization and foresee spectrum demand. Ultimately, a DSM system will be capable of adapting its prediction and decision-making through machine learning, in order to capture changes and adapt to the RF environment and related spectrum usage parameters.
DSM design paradigms must evolve to demonstrate elements of the paradigm shift by integrating spectrum knowledge as a core function in spectrum management; possibly leading to new and innovative spectrum management strategies and enhancing existing spectrum management strategies. One can envision a long term outcome to spectrum management where a combination of different types of services could dynamically share large portions of pooled spectrum, and further down the road the whole spectrum, in order to maximize spectrum usage efficiency.
[1] Paul Tilghman, DARPA, Invited Talk: Spectrum sharing through collaborative autonomy, Sep 25, 2017, VTC Fall 2017 Toronto
1.2 Application
Maximizing spectrum usage efficiency based on knowledge will benefit a broad range of user communities including:
Network operators can apply a data-driven proactive approach to spectrum access and management, where spectrum shortage and oversupply across different networks can be predicted and managed.
The military, first responders, and public safety communities can enable quick and meaningful spectrum access based on data-driven decisions, through the provision of relevant spectrum knowledge.
Regulators can automatically track and act upon unauthorized spectrum usage (automated compliance function) through the use of spectrum knowledge.
New DSM functions such as flexible licensing, including real-time spectrum monetization with real-time auctions and dynamic spectrum assignment of the licenses, could also be considered as part of the DSM evolution going forward and would benefit regulators and brokers.
1.3 Description
The dynamic spectrum management is enabled by several core technologies:
Advancements in cognitive/intelligent RF radios that allow them to learn and adapt the operational aspects of the radio to their current propagation environment. Cognitive Radios (CR) will operate over multiple frequency bands over a wide frequency range. Lower costs will enable CRs to become ubiquitous.
Advanced spectrum sensing will be needed to quickly and accurately classify known and unknown sensed RF signals (users) in targeted bands and identify transmission opportunities over a very wide spectrum pool that may host a large number of different wireless services and higher priority services.
Adaptive antennas that can scan the surrounding environment and adapt directivity and beam patterns to target transmissions.
Data fusion methods and big-data-analytics for helping with machine learning, prediction and decision-making with appropriate training methods (e.g. Reinforcement Learning).
Adaptive receivers that can better manage interference and track changes in the RF environment.
Taken together these technologies can enable wireless devices and networks to coordinate access to spectrum among themselves by sharing information on the spectrum environment, prioritizing new spectrum demands (e.g. emergency access), and protecting the priority access of legacy systems (e.g. military radar).
Ultimately, dynamic spectrum management could include local information processing (e.g. machine learning algorithms residing on the cognitive radios), as well as cloud management, to create an ecosystem where the cognitive radios could coexist seamlessly without a need for human intervention / licensing.


Regardless of where you live, there's a good chance that your particular region suffers from its own type of pest problem. While some areas have more difficulty with certain types of pests than others, the fact still remains that when it comes to pests we each have our own cross to bear. Having a professional exterminator come to your home or residence at least twice a year can go a long way toward helping control your pest problem, no matter what it might happen to be. There are also some other tips you can follow to help keep the situation under control.
The first step is understanding which types of pests your geographic area is most prone toward.
In the Northeast, you are likely going to be more prone to have problems with pillbugs and mold. Mold and mildew develops as a result of excess moisture. To a degree this can be controlled by insuring there is as little moisture as possible. Consider installing foundation vents as well as a sump pump if you have problems with poor drainage or even standing water. Excavating the crawlspace can also create more ventilated space to help as well.
Excess moisture can also lead to problems with pests such as fungus beetles and silverfish. This can be a particular problem if you have wood shakes because they tend to hold moisture in the cracks.
Pillbugs, also known as roly poly bugs are also a result of excess moisture, particularly around mulching. To help keep this problem under control make sure your mulching is no more than two inches thick in plan beds and space one food away from the foundation of your home.
In the southeast, pest problems tend to take the form of fleas, fire ants and black widow spiders. Spiders are best removed with a vacuum. This allows you to capture not only the spider but any egg sacs as well. Remember to always throw away the vacuum bag only after it has been placed inside a sealed plastic bag. Take a look around your home as well to spot any holes or cracks that could allow spiders entry to the inside of your home. Sealing these holes and cracks can help control your spider problem. Furthermore, be aware that heavy vegetation, such as ivy, growing alongside a house can lead to further spider problems.
Flea infestations can be a bothersome problem. Remember that flea larvae tends to live in carpets and concrete. To help eliminate the problem vacuum your carpeted areas frequently and then follow up with a product designed to control fleas in indoor carpeted areas. You can use the same type of product on carpeted areas.
Routinely look around your property to look for fire ant mounds and treat them immediately. You can use a liquid insecticide for this purpose.
In the southwest the biggest problems are scorpions and crickets. Remember that crickets are largely attracted by bright lights. Problems with crickets can further develop when they crawl through cracks to enter buildings. To keep this problem under control seal cracks and change your outdoor lighting to yellow lights that are not as attractive to bugs.
Scorpions are attracted to areas outside where they can seek shelter. Landscaped edging, stacked timbers and other such areas make the perfect home for scorpions. Heavy ground cover can also contribute to the presence of scorpions. Eliminating and reducing these areas can help to reduce the problem.
As always, if these measures do not work, call a professional exterminator to handle the issue. Utilizing the services of a professional exterminator twice per year regardless can help to keep bothersome pests at a minimum.


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Understanding Infertility through Chinese Medicine.
Jennifer E Winer, L.Ac. , Dipl. Ac., MSOM, Fertility Expert, Viola Practitioner practices at Winer Acupuncture, Inc. and has 17 years of experience (11/28/2018)
In this Video:
How Traditional Chinese Medicine views fertility problems
How Chinese medicine looks at imbalances in specific organs like kidney, spleen, liver and how they impact infertility
How an acupuncturist will remove blockages to assist fertility
Advantage of Chinese medicine when dealing with infertility
How does Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) view infertility or any kind of fertility problems in male or females? The theory of Chinese medicine is that you have meridians or pathways in your body, and when these pathways become blocked, or stagnant, or stuck, you're not happy, you're not healthy, you're not fine. Diseases can manifest, things can happen. Also, it's all about the organ system. When we're looking at an organ, or when we're talking about an organ, it's not as in the fact that it's not functioning properly. That's "Western Medicine." We're looking at it, in an aspect of balance. For example, a diagnosis could be liver blood and Qi stagnation, with kidney yang deficiency and spleen Qi deficiency. That, in western terms, can mean infertility, but the way we're looking at it, we're delving much deeper into different organ systems of the body that are affected. Essentially, if anyone came into the office, we're looking at it the same way. However, for fertility, there seems to be some consistency with irregularities and imbalances that we look deeper into.
For example, the kidneys in Chinese medicine; when we're talking about
balance for the kidneys, the kidneys are responsible for creating the ovum and also creating a substance called Jing, which gives you peak performance in your body and keeps your body balanced and fine-tuned. Both body and mind, but also spirit. So, with an imbalance of the kidneys, it's very important to get them balanced, because they're behind this very important area here (points to the ovaries), that many people get pregnant with. A very important organ in the scheme of things.
The next organ we look at, is the spleen. In Chinese medicine, spleen has to do with blood transportation, or transporting the fluids in the body. A lot of times, if you were to just hit your arm and bruise very easily, we would say the spleen isn't doing their job, because it also contains the blood in the vessels. When you think about blood, that's all about nourishing the uterus, and building the lining of the uterus, and getting that supply of blood, so the uterus can help hold the baby.
Finally, the liver, which we shouldn't say finally because the liver honestly, anyone who walks into this office has liver issues. It's just lifestyle, diet, stress level, but when the liver Meridian particularly is blocked, the liver Meridian starts at your feet, goes right up through your ovaries and uterus and right through your breasts. It has a ton to do with hormones, and cycle, and balancing that, and emotions, and when that is blocked, or out of balance, you're gonna have anxiety, depression, and potentially fertility issues just because of all the stress and the blockage. The liver, in Chinese medicine, looking at it from an order to conceive, and have a healthy pregnancy, it's very important to have that free flow of Chi in that meridian, especially.
Your acupuncturist, when you go to them, should be wanting to open all the meridians and keep all the blockages unblocked. There are other organs, the lungs and the heart, and again remember we're not looking at how it dysfunctions, we're looking at balance! The heart has to do with your spirit, or your emotions, so again, that can be affected based on how emotional, and how daunting it can be to go through [infertility], which it is. If you don't have a great support system, if it's gone on for a very long time, it can be very stressful, and then the
lungs have to do with the emotion of Grief. You can see where grief can play a role in the whole fertility issue, as well.
An advantage of Chinese medicine is that we're treating your body as the whole entire body. In saying that, we're not only treating infertility, we're also going to ask; how do you sleep at night, how's your stress level, and how are your bowel movements? All of these factors, and more, can indicate that your body is imbalanced. What we want when you're preparing to be pregnant and carry a baby for that nine-month period is for your body to be at its peak potential. So, if we're just focusing on one aspect of your body such as stress, cortisol levels, hormones, or other imbalances you might have going on, the other factors need to be addressed as they also play a role in the body as a whole.
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The loss of the assets that families worked so hard to accumulate is tragic. Just as tragic is that as the assets dwindle away, the family's unity and shared vision for the future often collapse as well. Individual family member achievement suffers, too, and the causes and organizations the family would like to assist lose valuable support as the family struggles.
We help family leaders create, enhance, and sustain family unity and growth for multiple generations. Our process impacts families today, and for generations to come.
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Barbara Murray of Vero Beach - Obituary.
VERO BEACH – Barbara Murray died unexpectedly in Vero Beach, Florida on July 29th at the age of 67.
Barbara is survived by her companion, Michael LaRusso, sister, Susan Curtis, cousin Sandy Bullers, niece Colleen Towers, nephew Patrick Dugan and two great-nephews; William and Huck.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Phyllis and Hugh Murray.
Barbara was born in Buffalo, New York. She graduated from Tonawanda Senior High School, and earned an associate's degree from Bryant and Stratton College.
In 1985, Barb and Mike moved to Florida to be closer to family. Her career included Administrative assistant for the State of New York Department of the Governor, Property Manager and Weight Watchers Instructor.
A celebration of life is scheduled for August 12th at 3 pm at Strunk Funeral Home, Vero Beach with a reception to follow at The Plaza next door to the funeral home. All are welcome to attend and celebrate Barb's life.
In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Visiting Nurses Association.


A physician and his former medical practice became embroiled in a dispute over his former employment, and like many such cases, the cause was submitted to arbitration. One of the issues in dispute concerned the physician's non-compete agreement, and the practice's assertion he breached it.
As part of the arbitration submission, the arbitrator was charged with awarding attorneys' fees to the plaintiff if the medical practice prevailed under its non-compete claim. The arbitrator rendered an award for the practice, but found that - as written - the non-compete claim was overbroad in its restrictions and that the liquidated damages should be reduced from $150,000 to $75,000. It declined to award attorneys' fees due to the reformation.
Maybe, but according to the Supreme Court of Connecticut, that is not really the issue. When a matter is submitted to binding arbitration, the only reviewable issue is whether the arbitrator had the authority to reach the issue decided - not whether the decision was factually or legally correct.
Clearly, the parties disagreed as to whether the medical practice ultimately "prevailed" by winning - in essence - half of what it requested. The counterview of this is the physician may have won, just as much as the medical practice lost. Perhaps his benefit from the breach exceeded $75,000, and he considered the award not a loss at all, but rather a victory.
Ultimately it doesn't really matter. The Supreme Court of Connecticut was absolutely correct to hold that the parties' decision to kick the issue to an arbitrator meant judicial review was exceedingly narrow.


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Settings
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Default Settings
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The openkongqi settings file doesn't have to define any settings if it doesn't need to. Each setting has a sensible default value. These defaults live in the ``global_settings`` variable from the module ``openkongqi.conf``.

Configuration Variables
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``CACHE``
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Default: ``_cache``

Path to cache the sources content. The default path is relative to running path.

Each source content is saved on each instance after fetching to allow for data history processing.

``DATABASES``
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.. TODO

``LOGGING``
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Default: See ``DEFAULT_LOGGING`` in ``openkongqi.conf``

.. TODO

``LOFGILE``
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Default: ``openkongqi.log``

The name of the file containing the logs.

``DEBUG``
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Default: ``False``

Whether to print out logging debug messages onto console.

``SOURCES``
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Default: ``{}`` (Empty dictionary)

A dictionary containing all the air quality monitoring sources. It is a nested dictionary whose contents provide the following metadata:

- ``target``: the html link where the content is fetched from
- ``uuid``: the unique identifier id that provides the station maps when fed into ``get_station_map``.
- ``modname``: the module name in ``openkongqi.source`` containing the extraction method for scrapping
- ``tz``: the local timezone of the source

An example of a key-value in ``SOURCES``:

.. code-block:: python

    SOURCES = {
        "pm25.in/beijing": {
            "target": "http://pm25.in/beijing",
            "uuid": "cn/beijing",
            "modname": "pm25in",
            "tz": "Asia/Shanghai"
        },
        ...  # omitted for brevity
    }

``SOURCES_DIR``
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Default: ``openkongqi/data/sources``

The path where the JSON files for sources are located.

``STATIONS_MAP_DIR``
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Default: ``data/stations``

The path where the JSON files for the station maps are located.

``UA_FILE``
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Default: ``data/user_agent_strings.json``

The path containing a list of strings that are valid user agents for web crawling. The default JSON file contains user agents selected from http://useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php.

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The 6 Most Terrifying Things People Used to Do With the Dead
N. Christie ·
Kyle Mulholland ·
Humans have long held a deep fascination with the morbid. Before televisions and the Internet came along, this could be problematic: It's not as if people could just sate their thirst for freakology with a Twilight Zone marathon or a wee hours Creepypasta binge. What the people of the past did have, though, was an abundant supply of corpses and tons of spare time. Here's some of the horrible, horrible stuff they did with both of those things.
(Disclaimer: This article contains images that may disturb some younger readers and will absolutely kick your soul in the dick, regardless of age.)
Victorian Postmortem Photography
People of the Victorian era were into all sorts of kink that ranged from the ball-shrivelingly strange to the downright lethal. And once you were actually dead, things didn't get any less freaky: On the weird end of the Victorian fashion spectrum lurked memento mori pictures. When a family member passed away, the Victorians had photos taken of the dearly departed. These eerie shots served as grim keepsakes, reminders of the inevitability of death -- and fashionable home furnishings.
Luckily, the living looked just as creepy as the dead.
Originally, "memento mori" meant almost anything -- locks of corpse hair woven into jewelry, death masks, paintings of the deceased -- just so long as you were probably haunted for carrying it around, it counted as an MM. The advent of photography changed all this. Suddenly, the middle class could afford to have the pallid, waxy corpses of their loved ones immortalized on a budget. And, since early cameras had exposure times of up to 10 minutes -- meaning the subject would have to sit really still (corpses are generally pretty still, and if they're not, you've got bigger problems than a blurry picture) -- the photographers were generally down to take some soft-core photos of the dead.
The relaxed posture sometimes added a cheery, casual air.
For a truly fashionable corpse display, the bodies needed to appear as lifelike as possible. This was achieved with a number of cheats, not unlike the ones food photographers use to trick you into thinking a Big Mac is edible. A common technique was to prop the stiff's eyes open or paint pupils onto the developed picture (because that's what corpses need help with -- augmenting their unblinking vacant stares). Children were sometimes surrounded with their favorite toys and, for a side of extra creep, occasionally done up like zombified cherubs. For adults, a complicated pose-a-corpse apparatus enabled more complex stances.
via TechnoCrazed
Turn the crank to see him perform a jig.
Because that's how little Johnny should remember his loving dad -- staring balefully across the barriers of death while propped up like a meat Muppet.
Naga Trophy Skulls
Richard Harris Art Collection
In the Naga Hills of the Naga district of northeastern India, there lived a tribe called, surprise, the Naga. The Naga treated the skulls of fallen foes like video game currency: Collecting enough top-quality heads bought a warrior many privileges, such as access to special tattoos and ornaments that marked him as a great hero.
Tribal Art Asia
In case your victims' decorative skulls didn't already mark you as a badass warrior.
A post-headhunt Naga camp was a sight straight out of a horror movie: Heads would be left on open pedestals for months while the meaty parts rotted away. The bare skulls would be displayed in the communal warriors' hut, where aspiring young hunters were housed. Of course, extra points were scored for how formidable the opponent had been. Warriors had a tendency to decorate their trophies with stuff like animal horns and tusks, for the same reason kids slap lime green spoilers on their Honda Civics today.
Michael Auliso
Like Civics, skulls don't have to worry about drag. Because they're magic.
Among other things, these horned skulls were totally acceptable marriage dowries. If a headhunter wanted to strike up a romance with a lady, he'd give her the pimped out head of a vanquished enemy. Hey, it's a surprisingly sensible gift -- chocolate lasts a day, and flowers last a week, but that defiled skull will haunt you for a lifetime.
There's also the Indonesian Dayak tribe, who shared a lot with the Naga: They, too, were very aggressive headhunters who also displayed their trophy heads in communal long houses. The only difference was that their skull trophies were, if anything, way more fitting for your black metal band's debut album cover:
They did a DNA test. This was human. Superhuman.
Powdered Mummies
Felix Bonfils
For hundreds of years, mummia was a wonder medicine used to fix basically everything. According to apothecaries, mummia could staunch internal bleeding, ease menstrual pains, and even speed up the healing of wounds. Oh, and it was also made of desiccated human corpses. Yes, we're talking about goddamn powdered mummies, and yes, that shit was applied internally.
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Every bathroom had a jar! No bathtubs or toilets, but everyone had their mummy powder.
From the 11th century until, well, now (hopefully), mummia was a readily available medicine in Europe. Tomb raiding thrived, as enterprising grave robbers sold powdered corpses on the street like nightmare cocaine.
When actual Egyptian mummies weren't available, you could just manufacture your own. The traditional recipe, as explained by the 15th century mystic/doctor Paracelsus, went as follows: Take the body of a young man who had died suddenly due to "unexpected violence," paint the inside of his chest cavity with asphaltum (a black resin used in the mummification process), wrap the body in bandages, dry it out like a human Raisinet, and then grind it up.
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Of course, there's only one way to be sure that he dies suddenly, unexpectedly, and violently.
All this dead-guy-dust-eating insanity was based on the belief that mummia contained vital life forces and could overcome the weak, sick flesh of the living, purging all illness from their systems. From about the 16th century onward, mummia started being dismissed as alchemical claptrap. However, because horrific madness is nothing if not resilient, mummia still persisted for quite some time. In fact, as late as the 19th century, a well-known German pharmaceutical company had mummia available in its catalog. The catchy product description was: "Genuine Egyptian mummy, as long as the supply lasts, 17 marks 50 per kilogram."
At those prices, you'd be crazy not to buy!
Blackbeard's Skull Became a Punch Bowl
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
Edward Teach, better known as the most fearsome pirate of all time, Blackbeard, spent years terrorizing the East Coast and the Caribbean. A bear of a man with lit fuses in his beard and a less than neighborly disposition, he eventually proved too big of a bastard to live: The authorities got fed up with his antics and dealt him a Cracked-worthy demise. To make absolutely sure that the sturdy pirate had finally bit the sawdust, they cut his head off.
Charles Ellms
And hung it from the bowsprit, yar.
Then they made a souvenir out of it.
Initially, Blackbeard's head was stuck on a pole by the mouth of a river in Williamsburg, Virginia, as a brutal warning to anybody else harboring aspirations of piracy. Eventually, when the flesh had rotted away, somebody decided to do the logical thing: drink liquids out of it.
HauntedAmericaTours.com
The inscription, not visible: "Deth to Spotswoode." Spelling wasn't a pirate priority. Yar.
The Raleigh Tavern appropriated Blackbeard's skull, plated it with silver, and converted it into the bottom of a huge novelty punch bowl. The above picture isn't the real deal, but it is thought to be a fairly close approximation. The bowl was bizarrely known as "The Infant." For over a century, the Infant remained there, occasionally being lent out to dinner parties for aspiring serial killers.
By the 1920s, the skull had disappeared, likely stolen by a drunken party guest. It resurfaced sometime in the 1990s and is now on display at the Peabody Essex Museum. BUT BE FOREWARNED: We are fairly sure it's a BYOB situation.
The Many Strange Adventures of Rasputin's Dong
The mystical "Mad Monk" Grigori Rasputin liked boning. Lots and lots of boning. Honestly, who doesn't? But he wasn't left to his own manual devices. No, strangely, women seemed to respond to his insane hobo musk, and he pretty well screwed his way through the final days of the Russian czars. Eventually, somebody woke up on the wrong side of Rasputin's sticky sheets, and the monk was killed six ways to Sunday, four on Monday, three on Wednesday, and one just for fun because it's almost the weekend. However, that wasn't the end of Rasputin's adventures: Even in death, a part of him was determined to live on. His disembodied elephantine dong:
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Astoundingly, that's the first excuse we've had to type that particular sentence.
The strange story of Rasputin's penis goes like this: After his death, the royal family's maid is said to have cut off Rasputin's glorious schlong and, for reasons best left unspoken, handed it to Marie, Rasputin's 17-year-old daughter. While most girls might not appreciate receiving their dead father's hacked-off dick, Russia grows a heartier breed up there. Marie happily wrapped the wiener in newspaper and hauled it to Paris, where it was kept on ice and worshiped by Rasputin's fans and followers.
Shockingly, Marie eventually got fed up of people idolizing her father's man-stalk. Leaving Paris, she took it with her to Buenos Aires and finally California. After her death in the '70s, an author and Rasputin expert acquired Marie's possessions, including her father's penis in a velvet bag. In 1994, the dong was sold at a London auction for a paltry $640. We can't make up our minds whether that was the best or the worst deal in history.
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We'd have cut off a horse's penis and pretended it was Rasputin's.
After a decade of unknown (but presumably sexually horrifying) adventures, the wang reared its wrinkly brined head again in a Russian museum of erotica. It was now strangely withered and blackened, and someone had seen fit to pickle it, but it still measured an intimidating 12 inches.
Hobo musk, indeed.
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Necropants. Whooo boy, necropants.
Necropants, or nabrokarstafur in Icelandic, are a stave -- a mystical artifact made of runic magic. They're also easily the most terrifying fashion statement this side of Crocs-with-socks. Sure, they're leather pants made out of a dead man's skin. The name gives away that much. What it doesn't reveal is how much of said skin is included. Hey, here's a replica:
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No necroshirts, though. Armpits are disgusting.
Yes, necropants are trousers made from the nether regions of a dead man, up to and including the, ahem, gentleman's region.
If you want to make your own pair -- and we can't imagine why you wouldn't -- the first thing you need is the skin from the lower half of a dead man. Not just any man will do, mind you -- you will need the person's permission to wear half his corpse as yoga pants. Otherwise the magic won't work. Just because you're wearing a man's peeled crotch doesn't mean you can be rude about it, after all.
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Tell him you want to get in his pants and make magic happen.
Why would you want to do this?
The answer is simple: Necropants come with a magic scrotum pocket. To activate it, run to the nearest old widow and steal a coin from her. Don't worry about getting caught -- your reputation doesn't have much lower to sink after you've started running around town in another man's nut-sheath. Simply place the coin in the scrotum of the necropants and it will magically draw money into the nut sack, giving you access to unlimited pocket change.
Or you could just ask the dude at the bus stop. But that seems awkward. Flayed dong-johns are probably the better way to go.
N. Christie is currently traveling the world to determine once and for all what the Seven Wonders of the World really are. You can read more from Kyle on Twitter.
Related Reading: Speaking of crazy things done with dead bodies, check out the smoked corpses of Papua New Guinea. And if taxidermied animal art is more your speed, give a look to these man-faced cheetahs. Think Cracked doesn't have more insulting attempts to honor the dead? Think again.
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Some of the most monumental moments in history happened because some idiot was really bad at their job.
By Eirik Gumeny, Ryan Menezes


The Beatles…big fan? or what's the fuss? Join us March 26 to explore!
Fifty years ago the Fab Four arrived in the U.S. and exploded across the rock scene winning hearts and teenage souls with a new sound that remains as beloved today as it was embraced then.
What makes the music of the Beatles so great?
In this interactive presentation, Squantum resident and Wheaton College music professor Delvyn Case will explore the inner workings of some of the Fab Four's greatest songs in order to describe why and how they have remained classics for 50 years. No musical experience or undying fandom necessary to attend.
Musician and Wheaton College music professor Delvyn Case maintains an active career as a writer and lecturer on a variety of musical topics, from sacred music to hip-hop, and pursues numerous musical outreach projects in Quincy and beyond.
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Sounds like at great event at my church! The Beatles are one of my favorite groups.Thanks a lot for putting this event on! I look forward to it!
New to the neighborhood this past winter. Looking foward to a summer in Squantum. Great views !
Welcome to the neighborhood, Deb!


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The music fit with the game perfectly, and I loved the slow pace. I did find the secret stage, but it's kind of an obscure way to get there. I felt like some of the story went over my head, but for the most part what was going on was clear.
There really aren't words to describe this game other than "thank you."
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Twitter CEO Announces New Policy That Will Ban Political Ads
By Jack Morse 2 months, 2 weeks
Jack Dorsey took a swing at Mark Zuckerberg, and politicians took note.
On Wednesday the Twitter CEO announced a new policy governing political advertisements — namely, that in contrast to Facebook, his company would no longer accept them. In doing so, he specifically alluded to Zuckerberg's defense of allowing political figures to pay to spread misinformation. Elected officials, both past and present, seized the opportunity to pile on.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that Twitter's move was a "good call," before adding that "Not allowing for paid disinformation is one of the most basic, ethical decisions a company can make."
This is a good call. Technology - and social media especially - has a powerful responsibility in preserving the integrity of our elections.
Not allowing for paid disinformation is one of the most basic, ethical decisions a company can make.
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— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 30, 2019
Notably, Ocasio-Cortez recently beefed with Zuckerberg over his company's controversial political ads policy. On Oct. 23, the congresswoman embarrassed the CEO by pressing him on whether his company's ad policy would allow her to run paid posts falsely claiming Republicans supported the Green New Deal.
His fumbled response was widely mocked, and the entire thing became the stuff of memes.
But the congresswoman from New York wasn't the only one to get in on the fun. The campaign of former vice president and current primary candidate for the Democratic party nomination for president, Joe Biden, also weighed in on Twitter's move.
In a statement shared by the New York Times' Kate Conger, Biden's camp used the opportunity to obliquely criticize Facebook.
"[When] faced with a choice between ad dollars and the integrity of our democracy," read the statement in part, "it is encouraging that, for once, revenue did not win out."
Biden campaign statement: pic.twitter.com/sYGjNPzjEv
— kate conger (@kateconger) October 30, 2019
Oh, and look who else got in on the fun.
"This is the right thing to do for democracy in America and all over the world," wrote Hillary Clinton. "What say you, @Facebook?"
This is the right thing to do for democracy in America and all over the world.
What say you, @Facebook? https://t.co/dRgipKHzUG
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 30, 2019
Of course, not everyone was happy. The campaign manager for Trump's 2020 re-election campaign, Brad Parscale, demonstrated a fundamental lack of understanding of the english language by claiming a policy banning all political advertising on Twitter — regardless of the party running it — specifically targeted Trump.
"Twitter bans political ads in yet another attempt by the left to silence Trump and conservatives," wrote the tragically simpleminded Parscale.
Dorsey, it would appear, had other thoughts on the matter.
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TV Licence fee outrage as Britons were left unable to watch TV but not eligible for refund
Jeremy Vine panelist criticises removal of free TV licences
The fire in August last year saw many left without TV whilst still having to pay for it. Now, MPs and campaigners alike are pushing for licence refunds that will reflect the lack of service.
On August 10 last year, the Bilsdale TV transmitter in North Yorkshire caught fire, the cause of which is still under investigation, leaving the structure out of operation.
Almost a million homes reported that they had lost all TV signal due to the fire and additional replacement transmitters were planned to salvage the lost signal.
The construction of the 80 metre replacement mast was set to be completed on August 28 however this was delayed due to legal complications.
By September 8, the site operators Arqiva announced in a media briefing that the construction would be completed within 21 days of permission being granted.
While many believed this meant signal would be restored before the end of the month, the mast was only operational by October 13.
Other transmitters and temporary masts in nearby areas were turned on during this time to help cover the outage and delays in construction.
For those still without a TV signal after the temporary mast was switched on, Arqiva released £50 vouchers for a TV streaming device.
Almost three weeks after the initial fire, the BBC agreed to provide thousands with licence refunds to help those worst affected.
Those without access to BBC iPlayer who had been left without TV for over a month would receive a partial refund or extension to their licence.
However, this announcement did not cover all of those who had been affected by the outages and pressure mounted for the BBC to issue full TV licence refunds instead.
The topical issue was taken into the House of Commons by MP Jacob Young whose constituency of Redcar was greatly affected by the outage.
Mr Young questioned the Minister of State and Media, Data and Digital infrastructure, MP Julia Lopez, saying: "The Minister will know there is growing support for scrapping the licence fee, or 'axing the TV tax', not least in Redcar and Cleveland where the Bilsdale mast fire left people without a TV reception.
"Yet most weren't provided with any sort of refund.
"Does the Minister agree that this is not an acceptable situation and that if this was a satellite, a broadband or phone provider, a refund for time without service, and in some cases even further compensation, would have been expected?"
Ms Lopez responded that she believed roughly 98 percent of household TV signal had been restored and the BBC had also been issuing refunds to her knowledge.
However, she added: "If he wishes to take it up with them, I would recommend it."
Mr Young explained that while both reports were true, the BBC had only issued a small amount of refunds to those that fit its criteria, which many in his constituency were not eligible for as they had not had signal for just over three weeks but not over a month.
He said: "I just view it as a matter of principle that if I were left without mobile phone coverage, my mobile provider couldn't say to me, 'Well we'll only give you a refund if you're a month without coverage and you don't have access to email'.
"The BBC constantly get away with murder because they're the BBC.
"Meanwhile the license fee climbs, more people are dragged into their net, and they carry on as normal."
A TV licensing spokesperson told Express.co.uk: "We continue to assist customers to claim refunds or licence extensions and so far around 11,000 households have already done so. If a household has been unable to receive TV coverage for a month or more and they are unable to view BBC programming through BBC iPlayer or satellite and cable platforms, they will be able to claim a refund or be offered a free extension."
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Idein Ventures to Invest $100-500M in a Celebrity Startup from India
Recently Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund had invested $3.5 billion in Uber setting a new precedent of investment in technology startups.
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Idein Ventures, a private equity firm based out of UAE, has earmarked up to $500 million for investment in a celebrity or unicorn startup from Indian subcontinent. For the same, its not going to use any of its regular funds, but will channelize other international funds who are traditional investors in assets.
Recently Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund had invested $3.5 billion in Uber setting a new precedent of investment in technology startups. Following the same, there has been a new interest in technology startups from various sovereign funds in the Middle East. Funds associated with various kingdoms are looking at startups in the Silicon Valley, China as well as India.
Idein Ventures is associated with the royal family of Ras al Khaimah of UAE. Its headed by Rajeshwar Prasad, who is also the CEO of RAK Sovereign Holding and a Cabinet Minister in the Republic of Guinea Bissau. It is also associated with a number of other fund sources that typically invest in traditional assets and similar companies. Despite the supposed slump in large-scale startup investments in India, Idein Ventures is exploring current unicorns in India and the rest of Asia for this new mandate.
Ashwin Srivastava, Director of Idein Ventures, says about this mandate, "We are in touch with some billion dollar plus companies and are looking at exploring others as well. We wish to present right opportunities to our partners, while filtering out paper unicorns and looking at companies that can bring as much value as Uber's investment brought. Our value addition to these companies also goes beyond money and brings in the association of powerful royal names."
Idein Ventures is also exploring startups that are less than a billion dollar in valuation but on the route towards the same. It is focusing on companies with potential of strong global brand value. It is keen on finding such companies from India, but being a global firm, it is also exploring startups in the rest of Asia.
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News Break – Concordia Seminary St. Louis extends a call
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In today's News:
The Rev. Dr. Lawrence Rast is asked to be seminary president
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis has extended a call to Doctor. Lawrence R. Rast, Jr., president of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, to serve as the 11th president in the school's 181-year history. The call was extended Saturday after a unanimous vote on the first ballot by the electors, including unanimous support from the seminary's board of regents, and following interviews with the final slate of six candidates. Rast, who would assume the presidency July 1 upon formal acceptance of the call, was elected to succeed Dr. Dale A. Meyer, who retires June 30 after serving 15 years as president. Rast has 15 days to deliberate the call. Rast is the chairman of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod Commission on Theology and Church Relations, on which he has served since 2006. He also serves as president and member of the board of directors for the journal, Lutheran Quarterly. He and his wife, Amy, have three children: Lawrence III, Karl and Joanna.
The House-passed 'Heroes Act' would fund abortion
Planned Parenthood is celebrating after Nancy Pelosi's "Heroes Act" passed the House of Representatives, potentially clearing the way for abortion facilities across the country to receive more taxpayer funding. The $3-trillion bill passed the house largely along party lines, with only one Republican voting in favor of the bill. Twelve Democrats also broke with party lines to vote against it. The bill, if passed, would provide another round of $1,200 direct payments to Americans, as well as aid to local and state governments. Pelosi claimed its passage was crucial to fighting the covid-19 pandemic. The bill was named the "Heroes Act" by Democrats because it will allegedly aid workers on the front lines of emergency health care. However, while the bill contains the paycheck protection program, it removes safeguards preventing abortion facilities from applying to receive funds. The aid local and state governments receive from the federal government can be used to aid abortion facilities.
Twenty Congressmen ask the Defense Secretary to defend religious freedom
Representative Doug Collins, joined by 19 Republican colleagues in the house, wrote a letter to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper Thursday morning complaining of, "multiple, unfounded complaints … Preying on military chaplains." The Georgia representative and others, call on Esper to "follow federal law in protecting their religious liberties and ensure that the ongoing pandemic is not exploited by nefarious organizations bent on removing faith from the U.S. Military." In April, U.S. Army Colonel Moon H. Kim, garrison chaplain at Camp Humphreys in South Korea, sent an email to his chaplain colleagues with a pdf of Christian author John Piper's book, "Coronavirus and Christ." It explained the book helped him refocus his calling and that he hopes it helps the chaplains as well. Military Religious Freedom Foundation President and Founder, Mikey Weinstein demanded in an April 29 letter to Esper that Kim "be officially, swiftly, aggressively, and visibly investigated and disciplined in punishment for his deplorable actions."
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Q: Android social signin Quickblox chat Here is my code. I have read the quickblox docs and downloaded the samples. I don't understand why this is not working!!
I have the access token and I pass it to quickblox to sign in which it does (i can see it in the dashboard) but it does not sign me into chat instead a I received a big error saying that chat wasn't signed into.
Please please help. The code examples on the site are fine but I'm sure I am just placing something in the wrong place or have left something out. I am at the end of my tether!!
public class LoginActivity extends Activity {

private String accessToken;
private String accessTokenSecret;

private QBUser user;
private SmackAndroid smackAndroid;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    //setContentView(R.layout.activity_login);
    Toast.makeText(this,"this is the login part", 3000).show();
}
    smackAndroid = SmackAndroid.init(this);

    // get stored AccessToken in shared Preferences
    SharedPreferences settings = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);

    accessToken = settings.getString( "twitter_access_token", null );
    accessTokenSecret = settings.getString( "twitter_access_token_secret", null );

    //AccessToken access_token = new AccessToken(accessToken,accessTokenSecret);

    //String TwitToken = String.valueOf(access_token);

    // have to start session and pass session ID
    String TwitToken = accessToken;
    String TwitTokenS = accessTokenSecret;
    QBUsers.signInUsingSocialProvider(QBProvider.TWITTER, TwitToken, TwitTokenS, new QBCallbackImpl(){

        @Override
        public void onComplete(Result result){
            if(result.isSuccess()){
                //QBUserResult qbUserResult = (QBUserResult) result;

                QBUser qbUser = ((QBUserResult)result).getUser();
                qbUser.setPassword(BaseService.getBaseService().getToken());
                QBChatService.getInstance().signIn(qbUser);
                //QBUsers.signIn(qbUser, null);

                //loginToChat(qbUser);
                Log.d("LogIn was successful","user: " + qbUser.toString());

                Intent intent = new Intent();
                setResult(RESULT_OK, intent);
                finish();
            }else{
                Log.e("QB didn't login with Twitter",result.getErrors().toString());
            }
        }
    });
}

 @Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        super.onBackPressed();
        Intent intent = new Intent();
        setResult(RESULT_CANCELED, intent);
        finish();
    }
 @Override
    protected void onDestroy() {
        smackAndroid.onDestroy();
        super.onDestroy();
    }
 //  @Override
 //     public void onComplete(Result result, Object context) {
 //     }

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.login, menu);
    return true;
}

}

A: Which version of Android SDK do you use?
Please download latest version here http://quickblox.com/developers/Android#Framework_changelog:
Did you check this Android Chat guide?
http://quickblox.com/developers/Android_XMPP_Chat_Sample
To login to chat you have to use this method:
QBUser qbUser = ((QBUserResult)result).getUser();
qbUser.setPassword(BaseService.getBaseService().getToken());

Log.d(TAG, "user: " + qbUser);

QBChatService.getInstance().loginWithUser(qbUser, LoginActivity.this);

@Override
public void onLoginSuccess() {
    Log.d(TAG, "success when login");
}

@Override
public void onLoginError(String error) {
    Log.e(TAG, "error when login");
}

What do you see in logs?

A: Ok this is my LoginActivity.
public class LoginActivity extends Activity implements QBCallback {

    protected static final String TAG = LoginActivity.class.getSimpleName();
    private String accessToken;
    private String accessTokenSecret;

    private QBUser user;
    private SmackAndroid smackAndroid;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        //setContentView(R.layout.activity_login);
        Toast.makeText(this,"this is the login part", 3000).show();

        smackAndroid = SmackAndroid.init(this);

        // get stored AccessToken in shared Preferences
        SharedPreferences settings = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);

        accessToken = settings.getString( "twitter_access_token", null );
        accessTokenSecret = settings.getString( "twitter_access_token_secret", null );

        //AccessToken access_token = new AccessToken(accessToken,accessTokenSecret);

        //String TwitToken = String.valueOf(access_token);

        // have to start session and pass session ID
        String TwitToken = accessToken;
        String TwitTokenS = accessTokenSecret;

            QBUsers.signInUsingSocialProvider(QBProvider.TWITTER,TwitToken,TwitTokenS,new QBCallbackImpl(),getApplicationContext());

        }

    @Override
    public void onComplete(Result result){
        if(result.isSuccess()){

            QBSessionResult res = (QBSessionResult)result;
            QBUser qbUser = ((QBUserResult)result).getUser();
            try {
                qbUser.setPassword(BaseService.getBaseService().getToken());
            } catch (BaseServiceException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            //
            QBChatService.getInstance().loginWithUser(qbUser, new SessionCallback() {
                @Override
                public void onLoginSuccess(){
//                  Intent intent = new Intent();
//
                    Intent intentChat = new Intent(LoginActivity.this, HomeActivity.class);
                    setResult(RESULT_OK,intentChat);
                    startActivity(intentChat);
                    finish();
                    }
                @Override
                public void onLoginError(String error){
                    Log.i(TAG, "error when login");
                }
                });
            }
        }
     @Override
        public void onBackPressed() {
            super.onBackPressed();
            Intent intent = new Intent();
            setResult(RESULT_CANCELED, intent);
            finish();
        }
     @Override
        protected void onDestroy() {
            smackAndroid.onDestroy();
            super.onDestroy();
        }
     @Override
        public void onComplete(Result result, Object context) {
        }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.login, menu);
        return true;
    }

}

And this is my chatActivity
public class ChatActivity extends Activity {

    public static final String EXTRA_MODE = "mode";
    private static final String TAG = ChatActivity.class.getSimpleName();
    private EditText messageEditText;
    private Mode mode = Mode.SINGLE;
    private Chat chat;
    private ChatAdapter adapter;
    private ListView messagesContainer;

    public static void start(Context context, Bundle bundle) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(context, ChatActivity.class);
        intent.putExtras(bundle);
        context.startActivity(intent);
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_chat);

        initViews();
    }

    @Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        try {
            chat.release();
        } catch (XMPPException e) {
            Log.e(TAG, "failed to release chat", e);
        }
        super.onBackPressed();
    }

    private void initViews() {
        messagesContainer = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.messagesContainer);
        messageEditText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.messageEdit);
        Button sendButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.chatSendButton);
        TextView meLabel = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.meLabel);
        TextView companionLabel = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.companionLabel);
        RelativeLayout container = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.container);

        adapter = new ChatAdapter(this, new ArrayList<ChatMessage>());
        messagesContainer.setAdapter(adapter);

        Intent intent = getIntent();
        mode = (Mode) intent.getSerializableExtra(EXTRA_MODE);
        switch (mode) {
            case GROUP:
                //chat = new RoomChat(this);
                container.removeView(meLabel);
                container.removeView(companionLabel);
                break;
            case SINGLE:
                chat = new SingleChat(this);
                int userId = intent.getIntExtra(SingleChat.EXTRA_USER_ID, 0);
                companionLabel.setText("user(id" + userId + ")");
                restoreMessagesFromHistory(userId);
                break;
        }

        sendButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                String lastMsg = messageEditText.getText().toString();
                if (TextUtils.isEmpty(lastMsg)) {
                    return;
                }

                messageEditText.setText("");
                try {
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I'm no longer receiving an error however after login activity in does not open chatActivity.
I thought the flow of the sample app went splash --> main --> login/registration --> Chat??

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Join us for the closing event of Queens International 2018: Volumes, including artist talks and performances, as well as the launch of the 2018 Carnegie International catalogue, to which members of the Queens Museum curatorial team, including QI 2018 curator Sophia Marisa Lucas, Larissa Harris, and Hitomi Iwasaki, contributed to a conversation about the notion of "international" with the Carnegie team.
A free shuttle will be running between the Museum and Mets-Willets Point stop on the 7 train from 12-6:30pm.
Camel Collective presents a special timed screening of their 2-channel video La distancia entre Pontresina y Zermatt es la misma que la de Zermatt a Pontresina (The Distance from Pontresina to Zermatt is the Same as from Zermatt to Pontresina) followed by a gallery talk with artists Anthony Graves and Carla Herrera-Prats. In this work, blind actors navigating Mexico City and the sonic effects of Foley artists animate letters exchanged between left-wing German philosophers Theodor W. Adorno and Herbert Marcuse, long-time friends debating the tactics of the 1968 student movement. Their inability to meet philosophically is echoed by their stubborn geographical separation. Tragically, Adorno dies before he and Marcuse could meet. The artists employ the labor of sound production to explore the gaps and connections that link theory and practice. Revealed through the work is the embodied practice of theory and the limits of human speculation.
Image: Camel Collective, still from La distancia entre Pontresina y Zermatt es la misma que la de Zermatt a Pontresina (The Distance from Pontresina to Zermatt is the Same as from Zermatt to Pontresina), two-channel video, 2017. Courtesy the artists.
Join us at Queens Museum for the culminating performance of Fel Santos: I of Newtown, a multimedia installation by poet Paolo Javier (former Queens Poet Laureate, 2010-14) and musician David Mason (also known as Listening Center) for the Queens Library LeFrak City branch that explores the sound poetry and elusive identity of Woodside poet Fel Santos. Javier and Mason's installation at LeFrak focuses on the expansive sound poetry of Fel Santos, which draws from his immigrant Pilipinx history, encounters with the occult, and his mother's own private language. Spanning film, video, sound poetry, and music, Fel Santos: I of Newtown shares the abundant intimacy and innovation of language and communication that is unique to multilingual speakers and postcolonial cultures.
Javier and Mason will be performing with poet Sherese Francis and artist/writer/teacher Emerald Carter.
This performance will be recorded by Montez Press Radio and broadcast on March 31st, 12-1pm.
Image: Film still, Paolo Javier and David Mason, Not Sure You Have One, 2018, digital video. Sean Hanley, editor/dp. Courtesy of the artists.
Please join us for a discussion on the keyword "international" in the context of two ongoing curatorial projects with respective team members: the 2018 Carnegie International with Associate Curator Liz Park, and Queens International 2018: Volumes with curator Sophia Marisa Lucas. The conversation with Park and Lucas will be moderated by Sreshta Rit Premnath and Avi Alpert, the editors of Shifter. Shifter is a topical publication that lies at the intersection between contemporary art, politics and philosophy and whose 2016 publication The Dictionary of the Possible emerged from a series of public discussions held over two years at The New School. Premnath and Alpert will be adding "international" as an addendum to the dictionary in response to this discussion. Alongside the works in the two exhibitions, the group will discuss how internationalism has been taken up in global political struggles from the 19th century to the present. What do these exhibitions reveal about the potentials, limits, and failures of the term "international" politically and historically? Looking back to Luis Camnitzer, Jane Farver, and Rachel Weiss's 1999 exhibition at the Queens Museum, Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s–1980s, the discussion will also broach the possibility of internationalism as the intersection of multiple trajectories rather than a harmonious principle.
For this discussion on the keyword "international," a shared Google Doc has been created with links to recommended readings and where anyone can join the conversation about (un)defining this term.
Image: Matsuzawa Yutaka,Vanishing of Humankind, 1999. Performance documentation as part of Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s–1980s, Queens Museum. Photos by Jeff Rothstein.
Queens Museum is pleased to host the launch and reception for the Dispatch, the second publication associated with the 2018 Carnegie International. Curator Ingrid Schaffner and Associate Curator Liz Park will welcome the creative team of Karen Kelly & Barbara Schroeder (Dancing Foxes Press), and Prem Krishnamurthy & Eric Price (Wkshps), with remarks beginning at 5:00pm. The remarks will be followed by snapshot readings by Dispatch contributors.


� [Phase], Cultivated Electronics and Ryan James Ford!
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Roni Size stops by to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of his classic album, New Forms.
Techno innovator Mark Ernestus is In 3 Records and The Request Line kicks off 2017.
A DJ set from Roni Size & DJ Krust Present Full Cycle recorded for the 6 Music Festival.
German techno DJ and producer Monika Kruse soundtracks her perfect evening.
Matt continues the Ibiza Warm Up, before Danny Howard comes live from the White Isle!
Toddla T has Tom Shorterz in the mix, plus another Mix N Blend.
Target has a guest mix from MJ Cole.


during Nov.17-22, at Borneo Convention Centre, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.
DPP organizes Plasma Session in this Conference.
3) The venue is changed to Crowne Plaza Hefei.
The 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP2018 in short) was held during 12-17, November 2018 in Kanazaw, Japan, and now, AAPPS-DPP decided to have 3rd Conference in Heifei, China. These conferences will be the annual plasma physics conference in Asia-Pacific region, similar to the APS-DPP and EPS-DPP conferences on plasma physics.
2019 S. Chandrasekhar Prize, AAPPS-DPP Young Research Award (U40), AAPPS-DPP U30 Doctoral Scientist/Student Ward, and AAPPS-DPP 2019 Poster Prize will be selected similar to previous year. In this conference, new DPP prize, Innovation Prize will be started mainly focused on plasma application. 2019 S. Chandrasekhar Prize winner should give plenary talk at APPC-14 (Borneo island).


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We write a program that you can follow and we review your results regularly, because if you decide to make a change for your health and your happiness for the long term, we want you to do that with a community that cares about your goals.


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Airbnb to stop its Covid-19 cancellation policy
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On April 29th, Airbnb announced that the company will be ending its coronavirus-era cancellation policy. As of the 31st of May, the company's policy will no longer cover Covid-19 related circumstances as a reason for a refund for bookings made on or after this date. That includes cases where a guest or host is sick with Covid-19. According to Travel + Leisure, domestic reservations in South Korea will remain an exception.
Instead, the host's cancellation policy will apply as usual to these bookings. Reservations made before the 31st of May, may still be eligible for a refund if they qualify under the policy. Airbnb announced that after consultation with medical advisors, as well as the community, the company feels the time is right for this kind of change.
As we've seen the heroic effort of health authorities and medical advancements around the globe, almost two thirds of the world's population have received at least one dose of a vaccination against Covid-19.
EU to extend Covid Certificate until June 2023
Almost two thirds of active listings on Airbnb's platform offer a moderate or flexible cancellation policy, which allow guests to cancel at least five days before check-in – and in some cases up to 24-hours before check-in – and still receive a full refund.
Airbnb provides guests with further information on finding the right cancellation policy for their stay on the company's help center. A search filter for "Free Cancellation" allows guests to limit their search options solely to these types of flexible listings.
Many countries have now implemented living with Covid-19 plans, as it becomes part of our world.
8 out of 10 Europeans have contracted Covid-19, estimates the European Commission
The company expects to launch a custom-built guest travel insurance product offering, exclusive to Airbnb guests. The same team that brought the AirCover Host protection product to life is building the new guest insurance product in partnership with a reputable insurance carrier and will be available to guests in certain countries. The company announced that until this new product is available, guests can consider purchasing travel insurance outside of Airbnb.
These are the 10 most vegan-friendly cities in the world
You can sleep in two countries at the same time in this hotel


Michael Dukakis: Subways or Submarines? Changing our Nation's Priorities from Endless War to Prosperity. Kicking off Massachusetts Peace Action's Distinguished Peacebuilders Series is the honorable Michael Dukakis! Michael Dukakis was governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and 1983 to 1991. He was the Democratic nominee for President in 1988 and is currently a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University and UCLA. He is the author of How to Get into Politics and Why, with U.S. Senator Paul Simon. Tax Day 2016 is an important opportunity for Americans to reflect on our nation's budget priorities. This event is also part of the Global Days of Action Against Military Spending.


It was in the intimacy of limited daylight we celebrated Christmas, almost a month ago now. The amount of natural light during the day had come until its absolute minimum by then. And during the following week it was kept like that.
And …it felt comfortable. It was just lovely to spent much time inside, in the house. Being curled up in a chair at the fire place I felt the comforting warmth of the coal fire. While staring into its lovely bright and deep flickering flames it seemed as if I was with someone else with whom I could share my thoughts.
As soon as Lá caille ( lit. the veil on the day), New Years' Day, arrived however, things changed quite abruptly. What I had loved before, lighting little candles for example during the day, did not seem to work out anymore the way I was used to the days before…Was it perhaps because of the quality of light which was different now? From a quality of deepest intimacy at Christmas actually, the light had changed into one of more transparency and clearness now instead of the somewhat mysterious haze which was so lively present in the light before.
With this change, the closeness of the moment I had experienced before, was broken. It seemed as if I awoke suddenly out of a sound sleep. What had happened? It was pure anxiety what I felt now and I did not feel like staying inside. Going outside was what I wanted and embrace the newborn light. With this transformation, it seemed light was given back to the world.
When the days passed on, gradually I grew into the re found balance as light is growing from now onwards, day by day. Just as the rooster takes its step, considered looking but determined.
It happened when the day was almost in. The light was in her waning already when the beams of the sun were radiating the neighbourhood in a golden shine.
Step by step the buzz of the day was slowing down to the background. In a field, higher up on one of the terraces, a cow was mooing softly, probably reassuring her calf. There was a bit of commotion already among the birds nearby, while they were finding and refinding their proper place on the electric wire for the coming night.
In many ways it had been a perfect day. One, I only can dream of. In the early morning there was a lovely sun dawn. A nice day was promised. And this promise became true….
A lot of people had been on the move. Not only people from Inis Meáin itself were on the road but from the Mainland and even beyond as well. From all sides I heard different tongues spoken and people were coming along the road, passing, and sometimes stopping to come in for a cup of tea and a chat. There were also people coming in with the intention of just having a look insight in what once was…the little shop run by Cáit and the post office where , while you were sitting on the little stone wall opposite the house, waiting for your post to be handed out personally. Only crossing the threshold many memories became vivid again for the people who remembered… And many lovely and thrilling stories originating from long ago, were told, may be even for the first time.
And then…while I was busy getting in the few tables and chairs from the little garden, there was a modest cough behind me. An elderly man straight and upright came in, well determined and asked for a meal. I am sure , whatever I would have answered what I could offer, he would have stayed. After his meal he confessed me the reason why he came in…it was the buailte or dot, above the g of tigh and c of Cháit written on the front door!
In former days, this dot was generally used instead of the h, which was taught later on.
Even on Inis Meáin… !
A very remarkable phenomenon here on the island is the light. The impact of its brightness and transparency on a clear day, like it is today, is intense! So much the more it is hard to believe that during the past few days there was sheer darkness. For days there was not a single beam of the sun to be seen! It was not just dull weather, no, there was nothing else than darkness during day time.
Summer actually, has another quality than winter has; the energy we are so filled up with during the months of summer, make us feel there is a shortage of time for taking up all the things we like to do. At the time we intent just to postpone until the season of winter… From our point of view in summer we reckon there will be loads of time during winter. (so there is, but…) The quality of winter nevertheless is directly opposite: our energy is limited now in actually doing things and what we have in stock, we merely put into reflection. We like to live with our memories now, on what was, on what already lies behind us. It is because of the dorchadas (darkness) I suppose, we use our energy differently. As it is during night time now that we, during this time of year go into ourselves and come into contact more easily with our beloved ones, who already passed away.


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St Clements University is a higher education institution which has reported itself to be registered in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Its website lists a number of affiliations and recognitions and a network of over 10 centres and offices in a number of countries. Since 2005 it has established locally registered autonomous schools, St Clements University Higher Education School in Niue, St Clements University in Somalia, and the Université Suisse Privée St Cléments (St Clements Private Swiss University).

Accreditation status

St Clements University Higher Education School in Niue states that it was licensed by the Niue Minister of Higher Education in March 2005 and is approved by the Association of Computer Professionals and the Association of Tourism and Hospitality Executives to teach their programs.

St Clements University states that its operation in Somalia was accredited by the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia in 2007.

The Université Suisse Privée St Cléments states that it was registered in the Swiss canton of Vaud in 2009 and offers joint programs with the Institute of Professional Financial Managers, the Institute of Management Specialists, Design, Technology and Management Society International, the International Institute of Engineers, the International Guild of Academians and the Institute of Human Resource Management.

St Clements University has no United States accreditation. It is not accredited according to Oregon, Texas, Michigan, and Maine official government listings. According to the United States Department of Education, unaccredited degrees and credits may be unacceptable to employers or other institutions and restricted or illegal in some jurisdictions, e.g. St Clements University degrees are illegal to use in Texas and have restrictions to their use in Oregon.

The Oregon Office of Degree Authorization reports that the government of New Zealand treats the St. Clements operation in Niue as being "substandard" and has requested "that its degrees not be included in international listings."

In 2020, St. Clements University appointed Roderick O. Ford, an American attorney and former judge advocate attorney in the United States Army, as its chancellor and whose primary mission is to review all university programmes, accreditation status, and policies in an effort to upgrade its academic standing in various states in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, the British West Indies, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Australian controversy
In 1999, under parliamentary privilege, Senator Kim Carr referred to a number of institutions including St Clements University which, in his opinion, were operating from Australia as "degree mills". He said that when a member of his staff contacted the company identified as administering St Clements it was discovered that it was also a whisky distributing company and alleged educational services company.  Senator Carr subsequently referred to St Clements as reminiscent of "the famous pirates of old ... using legal devices and incompetence by government ministers and making a bridgehead into this country's educational institutions" and as being operated out of a "grog shop" (Australian slang for a liquor store).

References

External links
St Clements University website
Université Suisse Privée St Cléments website (Switzerland)
Information about St. Clements University - Switzerland
Information about St. Clements University - Turkey
Information about St. Clements University - Turkey

Unaccredited institutions of higher learning
Universities and colleges in British Overseas Territories
Educational organisations based in the Turks and Caicos Islands


Shoes & Tattoos: Lord, can I please have a longer pair?
Apparently when our all-knowing Lord knitted me in my mother's womb, He thought it best to balance out my lengthy torso with unfortunately short legs. Look, I'm not questioning your work, Lord, but in all your omniscience, I wish you would have considered the hardships I would endure in attempting to acquire proper fitting jeans.
Or maybe your Refiner's Fire is creating in me a stronger character, but my heart does break a bit each time I see a picture of the new fall trend that I know I won't be able to pull off but will try to anyway.
Oh, how I long for knee high boots paired with scrunched knee high stockings.
I'm doing it! Short legs or nay!


There are times that you find the closet looks messy even after using the closet organizer. You will find that the use of the right hangers will be required in this case to help in sorting them out. In order to get a neat look you will need to consider a number of the given tips here to help in organizing the closet right.
In some cases the closet organizer may not look all good as portrayed by the pictures when buying it. However the right thing to do is to find the best hangers which will be good for you in this manner. The closet is one of the things that you see each day all the time. You will easily find that having the right one will easily improve the overall look of the entire house in this case. You will therefore need to have hangers of the same color as well as the same size to blend in really well. You will however find that there are different types of hangers in the market and some may be suited to some type of clothes alone. Here are the things you will need to know when purchasing them.
The first kind of hangers to meet in the market will be the wire hangers. You will find that they are multipurpose in that they can be sued to hang different clothes altogether and also use for unlocking the car. You will however find that they are not always the best for your clothes. When you look at many of them today, they are weak and even thinner in appearance. You will easily find that they are unable to withstand the weight of the garment in so many times. We have some fabrics which tend to react to the metal and they tend to easily change color when hanged on them.
You will find that the plastic hangers tend to be really common in the market. You will find that they are able to be found all over the place and even the grocery store will also stock them if they are locally found. They come in different colors and it is best to find a singular color of the hangers. It will be easy to find them coming in a variety of colors and shapes which can be quite confusing to some people. You may need to consider the kind of garment you are hanging as some of them like the jackets may bring them down easily.
You will find that there are the velvet hangers which tend to have a number of people who are using them especially the elite kind. You will find that they come in a hook which does help in maintaining a certain look of the closet.


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Premier Peter Gutwein today officially opened the 2022 deer hunting season for public land in Tasmania. This covers stag season only.
In this episode of I Am Hunter, we look at hunting controversial species like the mountain zebra in Africa or the Sulfur-crested cockatoo in Australia.
Do people really hunt zebra?
There's no denying zebra are iconic to the African continent. It's hard to think about Africa without imagining a herd of black and white striped zebra grazing across the open plains. Maybe that's why some find it so hard to imagine why anyone could want to kill one. After all, why would anyone want to hunt a zebra? In this article, we'll explore some of the common questions people have about hunting zebra and look at how hunting and conservation often go hand-in-hand.
Culling cockies
Cockatoos are not only synonymous with the Australian bush, they are a much-favoured addition to aviaries around the world. Despite being protected, they can still be killed under crop protection permits. In this article, we explore why cockatoos are culled, and why anyone would want to kill such an iconic bird.
Is hunting an ethical way to eat?
In this article, we explore whether hunting is an ethical, organic and sustainable way to eat, and why we have chosen to adopt it.
Ep 2: Hunting South Africa – can you handle the truth?
https://www.iamhunter.net/podcast-player/1406/ep-2-confessions-of-a-professional-hunter.mp3
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In this I Am Hunter podcast with professional hunter, Willem Gertenbach, we discuss the truth about hunting in South Africa and what it is really like, and why the western media has got it so wrong.
The real cost of a hunting ban
Every social justice warrior on the Internet seems to be calling for a hunting ban these days. Every few months,
You have enemies? Good.
Hunters have plenty of enemies in today's PC, take-offense-at-everything culture. Anti-hunters, angry vegans, and opinionated celebrities, like Ricky Gervais, constantly
All about the stripes…What is it about hunting zebra that gets people so fired up?
I have always wanted to hunt a zebra. I've got no issue eating the meat and think that they make
Do animal activists do more harm than good?
When animal activists try to save invasive species like feral cats, they end up doing more harm than good for the environment and our native animals.