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I watched the Fullmetal Alchemist live-action movie in Japan
Fullmetal Alchemist (Hagane no renkinjutsushi) is one of my favourite manga series at the true-to-story Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood might just be my favourite anime series. I live in Japan now and all my previous movie outings have been to see western movies; however the FMA fan in me sprung to see the Fullmetal Alchemist live-action movie on opening night.
Fullmetal Alchemist live-action movie: Two alchemist brothers go on a quest for the Philosopher's Stone after an attempt to revive their dead mother goes horribly wrong.
My Japanese language ability is still quite crappy, but I approached this film primarily as a fun 2 hour Japanese lesson. I already understood the story so I should at least be able to follow the plot. The film opens with the definitive story-point of the FMA series; the Elric brothers trying to revive their dead mother with alchemy. I honestly believe these opening scenes were the best part of the movie and it at least showed great respect for the source material.
As the movie goes on though it got less and less interesting with cliché scenes, underwhelming villains and straight up comedic special effects in some scenes. The movie is definitely worth the price of admission at the theater or a later release or viewing opportunity. It's not the best but far from the worst manga/anime movie adaptation to come in recent memory. Please watch it.
Fullmetal Alchemist live-action movie LOOT!
I also scored some merchandise while at the theatre. A special manga that was free with the movie ticket and I ponied up 1200 yen for a sweet Hagane no renkinjutsushi metal teacup that called to me from across the foyer. I see myself going to more movies in Japan as my quest to learn Japanese continues.
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Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association > News > News > New Poll Shows That Most People in Canada Think it is Important to Do Advance Care Planning but Only Few Did.
New Poll Shows That Most People in Canada Think it is Important to Do Advance Care Planning but Only Few Did.
OTTAWA, JULY 1, 2019 – a national poll was commissioned by the 'Speak Up' Advance Care Planning in Canada initiative to identify people's current attitudes and behaviors towards planning for their future health and personal care. People in Canada were asked about Advance Care Planning, which includes reflecting on and talking about their wishes for future care in the event they have a serious illness or health crisis. Respondents identified what makes it easier to have a conversation about their wishes and what makes it tough to plan ahead. While attitudes towards Advance Care Planning are overall positive, behavior has not followed; eight in ten Canadians have given end-of-life care some thought, but less than one in five have an advance care plan.
The poll, conducted by Nanos Research in February 2019, was released to national, provincial and territorial stakeholders to support them in developing strategies to raise awareness and encourage people in Canada to move from thinking to doing. An infographic illustrating some of the key findings is available on Speak Up website.
Mary Ann Murray, the Project Director of the Speak Up initiative, says "Advance Care Planning can provide solace to your family and loved ones. Helping them to understand and know what you would want enables your voice to be part of conversations even if you can't speak for yourself. It is more than thinking about end of life care; sometimes the unexpected happens and for a brief period you can't speak for yourself." Having conversations about your wishes is part of thoughtful life planning and helps prepare your Substitute Decision Maker(s) and health care professionals to make future decisions about your care that are right for you.
Most people in Canada value conversations about their future or personal health care
The survey also asked people in Canada about discussing their care with the following and found that the majority of them said that it is important or somewhat important to talk to:
Family: Nearly three quarters of Canadians (74%)
Health care professionals: Four in five Canadians
A close friend: Three quarters of Canadians
A lawyer: Two thirds of Canadians
A financial advisor: Three fifths of Canadians
A spiritual/faith advisor: Over half of Canadians
When asked when to plan, 36 percent of respondents said when they are healthy, 28 percent when they are making their will and 11 percent when diagnosed with a serious illness. On average, people in Canada say Advance Care Planning should start when a person is in their late 40s.
Progress has been made
A previous survey was conducted in 2013 by the CHPCA about Advance Care Planning. A comparison of results shows significant progress has been made in shifting attitudes towards stating future personal and health care conversations. The 2019 survey found that 80 percent have thought about Advance Care Planning – up from 74 percent in 2013. Most say it is important to talk about ACP with family and friends (93% vs 44% in 2013), health care providers (80% vs 51% in 2013) and a lawyer (66% vs 36% in 2013).
Chad Hammond, the Project Manager of the Speak Up initiative, says "There seems to be a growing interest globally in having these conversations earlier and with more people, but also shared concerns about finding time, support, and resources to aid in broaching the topic. The attitudes and behaviors expressed within the 2019 poll mirror similar national polls conducted in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand within the last couple years."
Most frequently people in Canada report not affording a lawyer can make it more difficult to plan for their future care. The poll found that 31 percent of people in Canada need more information about Advance Care Planning and 12 percent are not encouraged by their loved ones and family to prepare a plan. However, the majority reported that resources, support and more personal time would make it easier to have a conversation about their future care.
The 'Speak Up' Advance Care Planning (ACP) in Canada initiative is led by the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) with a financial contribution from Health Canada. The initiative aims to help people living in Canada prepare for their future and personal health care. The project involves a series of public awareness campaigns, supports community-based ACP programs, and promotes ACP resources and guides.
About the Poll
Nanos Research surveyed 2,948 Canadians, 18 years of age or older. An online survey conducted in February, 2019. The poll can be found on Speak Up website. – Results available by Jurisdiction.
Eight in ten Canadians have given end-of-life care some thought, but less than one in five has an advance care plan (ACP).
Most frequently Canadians report thinking it is important or somewhat important to talk to family or a healthcare provider about care near the end of their lives. They also most frequently report talking to family or talking to no one about end-of-life care.
More than half of Canadians (54%) have given some thought to care near the end of their lives; 20% have given it no thought.
Most frequently (36%), Canadians say they have talked to their family about their future care; 21 % say they have not talked to anyone.
Canadians (36%) most frequently say that planning for future care should start when one is healthy –
On average, Canadians think people should start advance care planning at age 48; respondents 18 to 34 years old say people should start planning at age 40 on average compared to age 55 on average for those 55 years old or more.
Half of Canadians do not have an ACP and have not yet done anything to get one; 10 per cent do not have an ACP and are not interested in one.
Three fifths of Canadians say they are comfortable or somewhat comfortable in advance care planning
For further information: Please contact Advance Care Planning in Canada at info@advancecareplanning.ca or by Phone: (613) 241-3663 Ext 225

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Support PCS strike at London's National Gallery
Staff at London's National Gallery, organised by PSI affiliate the Public and commercial services union (PCS), have been on strike since February 2015 following the Gallery's decision to privatise almost all staff, including those who look after the paintings and help the gallery's six million annual visitors.
PSI requests its affiliates to join the LabourStart campaign and send a message to the new National Gallery director, Gabriele Finaldi, calling on him to seek a resolution to this long running dispute.
The union remains opposed to the privatisation of all the gallery's visitor services and is fighting for the reinstatement of its senior representative Candy Udwin, who an interim tribunal has found was likely to have been sacked unlawfully for trade union activity in relation to the dispute.
PCS has started an indefinite strike over the gallery's privatisation plans and the impact these will have. The action is being escalated because the gallery has brought forward the announcement of the appointment of private security firm Securitas to manage the visitor-facing and security services on a 5-year contract reportedly worth £40million. About 300 gallery assistants who guard paintings and help visitors will be affected. They will no longer be employed by the gallery and will instead work for Securitas.
Strikers have so far taken nearly 80 days of industrial action and are currently on all-out strike so they rely on your support to sustain the campaign.
Please also sign the petition at https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no-privatisation-at-national-gallery
IMPORTANT: Signatories need to enter a UK postcode so we recommend people signing from outisde the UK use the gallery's - WC2N 5DN.
Read more on PCS website
Join the LabourStart campaign
London Gallery staff on strike against privatisations
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First day of National Gallery all-out strike "stronger than ever"
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A licence to print money: How to turn a fabric off-cut into $6000
By Meaghan Wilson Anastasios, April 28, 2009
Firstly, you need to be an artist with the celebrity status of Japan's Takashi Murakami. Secondly, you need to join forces with French luxury goods manufacturer, Louis Vuitton, whose hilariously expensive handbags and clutches adorn the pretzel-thin arms of the world's most watched fashionistas and celebutards. Thirdly, you need to get yourself exposure – and preferably a retail outlet – in one of America's biggest contemporary art galleries. OK. That's the hard part. Now comes the easy bit. Whip up a design for Vuitton to print onto some fabric, out of which the company will craft some of aforementioned exclusive fripperies. Said process will leave quite a few remainders and off-cuts. Take those off-cuts, grab a few timber stretchers, attach off-cuts to stretchers, sign and number them on the reverse, then sell in shop set up in large contemporary art gallery. Easy. But where does this leave the people who snap up your 'limited edition prints', if they bought them thinking they were acquiring 'original' works of art?
According to LA-based art collector and gourmet butter retailer (!), Clint Arthur, this is what happened to him (that's a visibly cranky Arthur pictured with his prints above). And he's more than a little miffed. And, if as reported in the LA Times, up to $US 4 million worth of Murakami 'prints' were sold at a Louis Vuitton boutique that had been set up inside a retrospective at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, there were many other collectors who were also happy to pony up the cash to buy these 'artworks'. Now, Murakami, along with peers such as Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, uses his practice to challenge the traditional boundaries between art and commerce. He has established a multimedia collaborative relationship with Vuitton, extending to the construction of a manga candyland cartoon clip featuring Vuiton's 'Superflat Monogram' (really worth a look) in which Murakami acknowledges the 'brilliant guidance' of Vuitton's artistic designer, Marc Jacobs.
In this, Murakami et al are Andy Warhol's cultural heirs. All of which is fine. But, art theory aside, the aggrieved Arthur is suing Louis Vuitton for fraud, alleging that the luxury goods manufacturer did not disclose that the 'prints' were contrived from bits left over from the manufacture of the Murakami-designed handbags and other natty be-tassled goodies also for sale in the boutique.
The prints were described in the boutique as "canvasses revisited by Takashi Murakami". "Revisited"? Now that there is some of the best and most creative use of art sales lingo I've yet to see. Louis Vuitton argues that, as an experienced art collector, Arthur should have known what he was getting. Moot point. But the devil is in the detail. And where things may get sticky for the French company is with California's 'Fine Prints Act'.
The purpose of the act is to ensure that buyers are given all the information they need about the nature of a print at the point of purchase. To avoid, I'd imagine, the sort of debacle that saw collectors fleeced out of millions of dollars by the 'printmaking' process set up around the elderly Salvador Dali. At their best, original prints are exquisite – I'm a nut for them. But for anyone other than an expert, the processes used to make prints can be pretty obscure. And the difference between an original, fine print and a mass-produced, 'limited edition' print… well, think a cubic zirconia and a diamond. Mr. Arthur believes he's been landed with a couple of cubic zirconias. And where it might get difficult for Louis Vuitton is that the Fine Prints Act (1744(4)) makes it very clear that an art seller must tell a buyer when the "multiple or the image on or in the master" is "of an image produced in a different medium, for a purpose other than the creation of the multiple being described". In short – if the fabric was made for the bags, and the prints were an afterthought, then there could be a problem. Then again, Vuitton might just say that the fabric was made with the express intention of producing prints, and the bags were the afterthought. Chickens and eggs.
Point being – fine art prints? One very large, squirming can of very slippery worms.
Images: Clint Arthur: Los Angeles Times; Takashi Murakami, DNA images: BBC
Tagged: art, art investment, art market, arts law, contemporary art, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Museum of Contemporary Art, prints, Takashi Murakami
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The U.S. and Russian Interventions in Syria Room for Cooperation or Prelude to Greater Conflict?
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Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations
The Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations convenes rising experts from leading American and Russian institutions to tackle the thorniest issues in the bilateral relationship. By engaging the latest generation of scholars in face-to-face discussion and debate, we aim to generate innovative analysis and policy recommendations that better reflect the common ground between the United States and Russia that is so often obscured by mistrust. We believe our unique, truly bilateral approach offers the best potential for breakthroughs in mutual understanding and reconciliation between our countries.
The Working Group is a project of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University on the U.S. side and of the National Research University–Higher School of Economics in Russia.
The Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations gratefully acknowledges the support of Carnegie Corporation of New York, the MacArthur Foundation, and Mr. John Cogan toward the costs of Working Group activities, including production of this report.
The statements made and views expressed in this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors.
© 2015 Yoshiko Herrera, Andrew Kydd, and Fyodor Lukyanov
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BIRTH: BEF 25 JUN 1848, ,,South Carolina,United States
Family 1: Charles T. John DALTON
|--S. J.
!BIRTH: 22 years old on 1870 South Carolina Census.
!CENSUS: South Carolina, Oconee Co., Seneeca Twp., 25 Jun 1870.
James Francis CAFFEY (Jr.)
TITLE: Jr.
Father: James Francis CAFFEY
Mother: Virginia HAYWOOD
_John Franklin CAFFEY _|
|                       |_____________________
_James Francis CAFFEY _|
|                       |                        _Isaac Davis DALTON _
|                       |_Mary Cole DALTON _____|
|                                               |_Susannah MARSHALL __
|--James Francis CAFFEY
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|_Virginia HAYWOOD _____|
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Mary Parham CALLIER
Family 1: Gabriel MOORE
DIVORCE: Y
MARRIAGE: St. Stephens,,Al,United States
|--Mary Parham CALLIER
Gabriel Moore is buried on the plantation of Peter Swanson 12 miles southeast
of Port Caddo. TX.
Edgar E. DALTON
BIRTH: ABT 1860, ,Patrick,Virginia,United States
Father: Peter Washington DALTON
Mother: Nancy Anderson DANDRIDGE
_Nicholas DALTON __
_James Hunter DALTON _|
|                      |_Rachel HUNTER ____
_Peter Washington DALTON __|
|                           |                       _Hamon CRITZ ______
|                           |_Nancy CRITZ _________|
|                                                  |_Elizabeth DALTON _
|--Edgar E. DALTON
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|_Nancy Anderson DANDRIDGE _|
|                       ___________________
|______________________|
CHILD: History of North Carolina, call #975.6 H Vol. XI, p. 114.
Elizabella DALTON
BIRTH: BEF 13 SEP 1847, ,Madison,North Carolina,United States
Father: William DALTON
Mother: Mary Elizabeth YOUNG
_David Sr. DALTON _
_David DALTON _____|
|                   |_Susan DALTON _____
_William DALTON _______|
|                       |                    ___________________
|                       |_Mrs David DALTON _|
|                                           |___________________
|--Elizabella DALTON
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|                       |                   |___________________
|_Mary Elizabeth YOUNG _|
|                    ___________________
!CENSUS: North Carolina, Cleveland Co., p. 173, 13 Sep 1850.
North Carolina, Cleveland Co., 18 Jun 1860.
!BOOK: #1- Tryon County Genealogical Journal: Court Records.
1849: Tryon County Court: appointed William Dalton guardian to James P. Dalton,
John W. Dalton, Martha G. Dalton, William A. Dalton, Louisa J.Dalton, Samuel C.
Dalton; orphans of James Young, deceased. Security: Major McCombs, Nov.1849.
It appears that Elisabella is a child of Wm.Sr. & Mary.
1860: William Dalton (Dolton) and family are living near the families of Jacob
Carpenter, and Turner Gladdin. Residing in a nearby house are John(21),
Wm.(18), and Louisa(16) Dalton (Dolton).
On the 1860 census, the name appears as Eseily Dolton (Dalton).
1870: Wm. and Mary have Estate value $80 & $100 with Dorothy(21), Franklin(18),
Lycurus(16), Letty Ann(13), Edie A.(10), and James Y.(3) living at home.
Elisabella and Louisa must be married and living nearby.
Jonathan Tobie DALTON
BIRTH: BEF 22 JUN 1810, ,Rutherford,North Carolina,United States
Father: Thomas DALTON
Mother: Elizabeth MORRIS
Family 1: Martha WILSON
MARRIAGE: 20 MAY 1844, ,Rutherford Co.,North Carolina,United States
Thomas DALTON
Elizabeth DALTON
James Bud DALTON
Marah A. DALTON
Nancy C. DALTON
Calvin P. DALTON
Sarah DALTON
Rachel DALTON
Lacy M. DALTON
William R. DALTON
John M. DALTON
Jonathan H. DALTON
Milly M. DALTON
_Thomas DALTON ____|
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|                   |_Susan DALTON _____|
|                                       |____________________________
|--Jonathan Tobie DALTON
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|_Elizabeth MORRIS _|
!CENSUS: North Carolina, Rutherford Co., Montford Cove, 16 Sep 1850.
North Carolina, Rutherford Co., Broad Dist, Island Ford, 25 Jul 1860.
North Carolina, Rutherford Co., Chimney Rock Twp., 22 Jun 1870.
Marriage bond #000133016, record # 086 01 061, 20 May 1844, bondsman M.
Wilkerson, no witness.
On the 1860 census, J. Dalton and his family are living next to the families of
Allen Dalton age 29, and James Dalton age 50.
Nancy K. DALTON
BIRTH: BEF 28 AUG 1831, ,Rockingham,North Carolina,United States
Father: James Hunter DALTON
Mother: Nancy CRITZ
_Nicholas DALTON __|
|                   |_Charlotte GALLIHUE _
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|                      |_Rachel HUNTER ____|
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|--Nancy K. DALTON
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|                       _Hamon CRITZ ______|
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|_Nancy CRITZ _________|
|                    _Robert DALTON ______
|_Elizabeth DALTON _|
|_Mrs DALTON _________
BIRTH: 19 years old on 1850 Virginia Census.
CENSUS: Virginia, Patrick Co., 28 Aug 1850.
James A. ENGLAND
BIRTH: 1830, ,Rutherford,North Carolina,United States
BAPTISM: APR 1993
ENDOWMENT: APR 1993
Father: Joseph ENGLAND
Mother: Mary_Polly Elizabeth DALTON
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_Joseph ENGLAND ______________|
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|--James A. ENGLAND
|                                                   _David Sr. DALTON _
|                               _Thomas DALTON ____|
|                              |                   |_Susan DALTON _____
|_Mary_Polly Elizabeth DALTON _|
BIRTH: West Palm Beach,West Palm Beach,Florida,United States
Family 1: Margaret Louise HORNE
|-- GLOVER
!Informant: Alice Raulerson Horne and obituary of mother-in-law.
Ella Drane PARKER
BIRTH: 9 OCT 1872, ,Talbot,Georgia,United States
DEATH: 4 JUN 1950, ,Talbot,Georgia,United States
Family 1: Robert Henry Lennard LEONARD
Mareola Lennard LEONARD
|--Ella Drane PARKER
!BIRTH: years old on 1870 Georgia Census.
!CENSUS: Georgia, Talbot Co., Center P.O., 1870.
!BOOK:
#1- Rockaway in Talbot: R975.8483 d253R V.1, Davidson.
Page: 271.
#2- Georgia Bible Records: R975.8A936g Gen.c.2.
by Jeanette Holland Austin
Peter RAULERSON
BIRTH: 1 SEP 1857, Plant City,Polk,Florida,United States
DEATH: 9 OCT 1947, ,,Florida,United States
BURIAL: OCT 1947, ,,Florida,United States
Father: Noel Rabun RAULERSON
Mother: Tampa F. Whitton WHIDDON
Family 1: Louisanna CHANDLER
MARRIAGE: 17 OCT 1877, ,,FL,United States
SEALING TO SPOUSE: 6 FEB 1980
Temple: SLAKE
+William RAULERSON
Thomas J. RAULERSON
+Louis M. RAULERSON
Melville B. RAULERSON
Hammon L. RAULERSON
Fritta RAULERSON
Corneleius RAULERSON
_Noel RAULERSON _|
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_Noel Rabun RAULERSON _____|
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|                           |_Eleanor BAGGS __|
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|--Peter RAULERSON
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|_Tampa F. Whitton WHIDDON _|
Dallas Morning News - 'Yesterdays" column by Bill McGoun.
!CENSUS: Florida, Hillsborough Co., 18 Jun 1860.
Florida, Saint Luci Co., Precinct 40, 2 May 1910.
Florida, Okeechobee Co., 1920.
!MARRIAGE: 32 years on 1910 Florida Census.
On the 1910 census, Peter's occupation was listed as stock farmer. His parents
were both born in Florida. He had been married 32 years with 8 children, all
living. Peter had a border living in the house, Louis C. Bird, age 19, born
Florida (same as parents), occupation farm laborer.
Dallas Morning News column 'YESTERDAYS', by Bill McGoun, "Lure of land drew
pioneer"; details some of Peter Raulerson's life in Florida, and tells some of
his genealogy.
Noah SCALES
Father: Joseph SCALES
Mother: Fannie WEBB
Family 1: Laur PHILLIPS
MARRIAGE: ,,,United States
_Absalom SCALES __________|
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_Joseph SCALES _|
|                |                           _Samuel DALTON ______
|                |_Nancy Ann Kenner DALTON _|
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|--Noah SCALES
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|_Fannie WEBB ___|
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Virginia Belle SNYDER
BIRTH: ,Stokes,North Carolina,United States
DEATH: 2 SEP 1948, ,Stokes,North Carolina,United States
BURIAL: SEP 1948, ,Stokes,North Carolina,United States
Family 1: Joseph Scott DALTON
MARRIAGE: ,Stokes,North Carolina,United States
|--Virginia Belle SNYDER
Louisa Eveline STATON
BIRTH: 15 FEB 1858, Tuxedo,Henderson,North Carolina,United States
DEATH: 24 MAR 1892, Saluda,Polk,North Carolina,United States
BURIAL: 24 MAR 1892, Friendship Bap,Polk,North Carolina,United States
Family 1: John S. JOHNSON
MARRIAGE: 5 DEC 1875, ,Henderson,North Carolina,United States
Mary Elizabeth Lizzie JOHNSON
Olivia JOHNSON
Saloma Algira Loma JOHNSON
Leanna JOHNSON
Thomas Furman JOHNSON
William Luther JOHNSON
+Evelyn JOHNSON
|--Louisa Eveline STATON
FGR: Frank E. Block, Sr.
Family 1: Sarah Matilda HUGHES
|--Thomas WILLIAMS
!BOOK: Bible Records of Williamson Co. Tennessee, compled by Louisa G. Lynch -
1970. 976.8 L987b Gen C.2, page 73 - 74.
moved to texas after marriage.


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I am not sure what approach is the best to do this. Can i accomplish this using Regex or JS. I know Regex can easily return text between two tags, but what i am looking for is a little different. Thanks in advance for any advice or help.

A: The simplest solution would be to match anything except <s, starting at the beginning of the string:
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This fails if <s could occur in comments/quoted strings  before the first HTML tag, but that might not be a problem.
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Explanation:
^      # Anchor the match to the start of the string.
[^<]   # Match any character that's not a <
*      # zero or more times (as many as possible).

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The third and penultimate Forward Cities convening was held in Durham December 8-11, 2015, and this time our leaders dug deeper into the initiative's goals than ever before, past the initial getting-to-know-you phase in New Orleans and the best-foot-forward atmosphere in Detroit, into the real and uncomfortable talk that is necessary to accomplish the goals of this initiative.
The Durham Convening began on Tuesday, December 8, addressing the role of government policy at Duke University's Bull Pen building in downtown Durham, where Steven Bosacker, Director of Public Sector Innovation at Living Cities and previous City Coordinator of the City of Minneapolis, made very clear how integral local government is to stimulating inclusive economic development. "Government still remains the entity with the purview and cash to fundamentally change big systems," he said. Speaking from the standpoint of individual entrepreneurs, on a much smaller scale, Andrea Chen of Propeller in New Orleans added, "Every entrepreneur at some point bumps into some sort of policy hurdle." From the much-discussed redlining policies that displaced and destroyed minority communities over the last century to the seemingly minor issue of knowing what licensing one needs to open a business, our discussions during this four day event had a tendency to go back, one way or another, to policy issues.
This first day program was followed by a reception for all of our out-of-town guests at TeachHouse, an innovative living and learning community for graduates of the Duke University teacher preparation programs that are committed to working one or more years in Durham's Public School System. These resident young teachers shared stories with the Forward Cities group of how living in a learning and supportive environment was helping them do a better job as teachers in the local community. Hopefully most of these bright and dedicated education innovators will want to make Durham their home and continue to work with kids in the public schools there which is the ultimate goal of this talent retention program.
The second day of the convening, Wednesday, December 9, was spent on visits with local leaders and entrepreneurs plus field trips that highlighted how systemic racism has impacted Black neighborhoods and Black businesses in Durham over the last century. Our Forward Cities leaders and donors visited the Historic Parrish Street Forum where we learned some of the history and legacy of Durham's Black Wall Street, the home of more Black millionaires in the 1920s and '30s than anywhere else in America. We met members of the Self-Help executive staff at the Angiers Baptist Church, where they discussed their efforts to create and protect ownership and economic development opportunities for all, challenging everyone to ask how we can "do with," instead of "do to" or "do for." And we met and heard from entrepreneurs at Invictus Office Center, a Black-owned co-working and business incubator space dedicated to building the community of minority entrepreneurs that is led by Edward Boyd.
At the SEEDS reception and dinner on the night of Wednesday, December 9, Dr. Mindy Fullilove delivered a powerful presentation on race and economic development, delving into the historic practice of "redlining" and how "urban renewal" was carried out in 2,500 communities in 1,000 cities – resulting in two-thirds of vibrant Black communities being effectively destroyed. "Before we try to rebuild cities, we have to understand what went wrong and how these communities collapsed," Dr. Fullilove said. After Dr. Fullilove's presentation at SEEDS, Regina Ann Campbell, Managing Director of Place-Based Entrepreneurship at TechTown Detroit, stood up and asked a question that was, undoubtedly, on many Forward Cities council members' minds: "When revitalization also means forced displacement, what can we do? I feel like we're already losing the fight," she said in an impassioned observation.
On Thursday, December 10th, council members met at the Great Hall of the North Carolina Central University Law School – the most diverse law school in the country – where Jonathan Holifield, Co-Founder of ScaleUp Partners and VP of Inclusive Competitiveness at NorTech, spoke about gentrification and inclusive competitiveness. This was followed by a presentation on Durham Gentrification Data presented by Mel Norton of People's Alliance and Ernest Smith of Neighborhood Allies. Mel and Ernest clearly explained how gentrification is fundamentally different than revitalization, and why this is a social justice issue.
Following that was a panel discussion that asked the question, "How do we intentionally create inclusive development to get the results we want?" featuring Napoleon Wallace of Self-Help in Durham; Michael Fleming of St. Clair Superior Development Corporation in Cleveland; Adele London of GoodWork Network in New Orleans; and James Feagin, of the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation. Afterwards council members broke up into groups for roundtable discussions, then reported out on each of their takeaways and recommendations. This very productive first day of panels concluded with a wonderful lunch buffet sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina and an interview of Maureen O'Connor, President and CEO of Mosaic Health Solutions, an innovative new company that is part of BCBS of NC.
That evening everyone headed to the Rick House, a very cool newly renovated brick warehouse and former distillery that overlooks the old Durham baseball park where the movie Bull Durham was filmed. There our guests were treated to a surprise performance from the Hillside High School Marching Hornets Band, followed by welcoming remarks by Durham's Mayor, William Bell and a discussion on Durham's comeback featuring the key players behind the city's turn around, namely: Phail Wynn, VP of Durham and Regional Affairs at Duke University; Bill Kalkhof, Former President of Downtown Durham Inc.; Martin Eakes, CEO of Self-Help; Jesica Averhart, Director of Corporate and Community Partnerships at American Underground/Capitol Broadcasting Corp; and Mayme-Webb Bledsoe, Senior Community Coordinator at Duke University.
This discussion was moderated by one of Durham's most famous native sons, David Gergen, Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and CNN Senior Political Analyst. David started out by sharing memories of what it was like to grow up in Durham when it was segregated and there were two high schools: Durham HS, the school for white kids, and Hillside HS, the school for black kids. Martin Eakes spoke on Self-Help's earliest beginnings from a $77 bake sale to where it is today, a $2 billion financial institution serving minority and underserved families. "If the neighborhood fails, the city fails," he said to applause from the rapt audience. In addition to getting a glimpse of what Durham used to be like – what it went through on its way down and on its way back up again – we were inspired to hear what motivated a group of local leaders, who did not exactly like each other or agree with each other, come together to figure out what they needed to do in order to bring back their beloved city.
For the last day of the convening, Friday, December 11th, the group met at the beautiful new Durham Bulls Ball Park Club Room, and tackled the subject of "Access to capital for minority entrepreneurs and small business owners". This was moderated by Joan Siefert Rose, president of the Council for Entrepreneurship Development, and included the following presenters: Henry McKoy of Durham's Fourth Sector Capital, Eric Diamond of ECDI in Cleveland, Gary Williams of Hope Credit Union in New Orleans, and Ray Waters of the Detroit Development Fund.
Only one convening remains as part of the Forward Cities initiative, to be held next June in Cleveland. It will be exciting to see how the lessons learned and insights gleaned from Durham, and the previous convenings in New Orleans and Detroit, will culminate in that final event.
For a the full list of attendees at the Forward Cities Durham convening, click here.


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I remember growing up in Spain during a time when ETA, the Basque terrorist group, was in its full apogee and bomb scares were happening almost every week at our school. Every time we were told that classes were postponed for later in the day or cancelled, I always felt a pang in my heart and remember thinking that I much preferred to have to go to school every single day of the year than getting time off because of bomb threats. I also remember many kids being ecstatic about not having to go to classes; in fact, some of these kids who are obviously now adults, have admitted to calling in many of the threats that resulted to be fake.


The values of Pope Francis, to include tolerance for pedophilia, are the values of the late Roman Empire before their demise. A demographic and economic crisis piloted by the elite existed back then, as well as out-of-control immigration, and a loss in moral beliefs, and political ideology, just like today in the era of globalization, and the New World Order.
The Roman Empire, that for six centuries held the entire Mediterranean area under their control, suddenly submitted, and gave in to their enemies. The turning point for this disaster was in 378 a.d., with the Battle of Adrianople, sometimes known as the Battle of Hadrianopolis, a defeat in which the emperor himself was killed by those Goths which, a few years earlier, were given refugee status in Roman territory as refugees fleeing from war.
From then on, the story of Rome was marked my dear readers, and soon Europe could face the same fate if President Trump does not help to rectify this situation.
Ok, in the US you might have a slightly detached vision of Europe's present crisis, but remember once Europe falls, the next in line is the United States of America, and finally the whole breakdown of civilization. In this case Daniel 2:42 might come in handy as a prophetic reference to the story. The feet and toes of the image Nebuchadnezzar saw were composed "partly of potter's clay and partly of iron," meaning "the kingdom shall be divided…partly strong and partly fragile." This means it would be made up of people who "will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay" (Daniel 2:41-43).
Welcome to the end, or rather for many Christians, the enactment of, The Book of Revelation, which is one of the most controversial and least understood books of the Bible regarding the time just before Christ's return to earth, and what He will do afterward.
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Does the nine pointed star in Baha I Faith represent unity?
1 Does the nine pointed star in Baha I Faith represent unity?
2 What religion has a nine pointed star?
3 How many Baha'i temples are there?
4 Who is the Kitab?
5 How is the number 9 related to the Baha'i Faith?
6 Where did the nine pointed star come from?
Nine-pointed star While the star is not a part of the teachings of the Bahá'í Faith, it is commonly used as an emblem representing "9", because of the association of number 9 with perfection, unity and Bahá'.
What religion has a nine pointed star?
Baha'i. Nine Pointed Star: The symbol of the Nine Pointed Star reflects the Baha'i faith's high regard for world harmony, peace, and equality.
What is a 9 point star called?
In geometry, an enneagram is a nine-pointed plane figure. It is sometimes called a nonagram or nonangle.
What is the Baha'i holy book?
The Kitāb-i-Aqdas (Persian: کتاب اقدس), or simply Aqdas (Persian: اقدس) is the central religious text of the Bahá'í Faith written by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the religion, in 1873.
How many Baha'i temples are there?
seven Baha'i temples
There are seven Baha'i temples , referred to as Baha'i houses of worship, in seven continents of the world. Chile in south America houses the eighth construction, which is underway. The seven places where Baha'i temples are located are North America, Australia, Uganda, Germany, Panama, Samoa and India.
Who is the Kitab?
The Kitāb-i-Aqdas (Persian: کتاب اقدس), or simply Aqdas (Persian: اقدس) is the central religious text of the Bahá'í Faith written by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the religion, in 1873. In Baha'i literature it is described as "the Mother-Book" of the Bahá'í teachings, and the "Charter of the future world civilization".
Is Baha I monotheistic or polytheistic?
The Baha'i Faith is strictly monotheistic. There is only one God, he is exalted above human understanding, so can only be understood and approached via his prophets and messengers (the 'Manifestations of God').
Why is the nine pointed star important to the Baha'is?
Shoghi Effendi also approved the use of the nine-pointed star on Bahá'í gravestones. The nine-pointed star is regarded by many people, both Bahá'í and non-Bahá'í, as a symbol of the Faith, and hence any use of it should be under conditions which are dignified and appropriate.
How is the number 9 related to the Baha'i Faith?
According to the Abjad system of Isopsephy, the word Bahá' has a numerical equivalence of 9, and thus there is frequent use of the number 9 in Bahá'í symbols. The most commonly used symbol connected to the number 9 is the nine-pointed star; there is no particular design of the nine-pointed star that is used more often than others.
Where did the nine pointed star come from?
In a letter to the Temple Guides Committee, dated 5 December 1944, the Guardian's secretary stated on his behalf that the nine-pointed star was not a symbol of the Faith in any special sense, but that it was developed by Mr. Bourgeois (the architect of the House of Worship in Wilmette) and other Bahá'ís as a symbol that could be used.
What is the symbol for the number 9?
The most commonly used symbol connected to the number 9 is the nine-pointed star; there is no particular design of the nine-pointed star that is used more often than others.
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New report: Immigrant population surges to nearly 20 percent of Americans
October 16, 2017 | Luis Miguel | Print Article
A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) shows the number of immigrants and their American-born children has risen to over 60 million, roughly one-fifth of the US population, as reported by the Washington Examiner.
Since 2000, the country's immigration population has grown by 8 million, with the majority being from Mexico and Latin America.
The total immigrant population is 43 million. The figure jumps to over 60 million immigrants' US-born children are factored in. The report, which relies on statistics from the US Census Bureau, does not distinguish between legal and illegal immigration.
Major findings from the CIS report include:
Mexico is the top-sending country of immigrants, which includes both legal and illegal entries. A total of 11 million immigrants arrived from Mexico between 2010 and 2016, accounting for 1-in-8 arrivals.
Texas, with 587, 889 arrivals, was found to have the largest numerical increase in the number of immigrants, followed by Florida (578,468), California (527,234), New York (238,503), and New Jersey (New Jersey).
The current number of immigrants in the US is the highest number in 106 years. As recently as 1980, only 1-in-16 residents was foreign-born.
These findings are prompting concern from observers who worry about the long-term economic, cultural, and social effects of such massive immigration.
The report is especially significant in light of news that the federal government will give 2 million work permits this year to foreign-born residents who entered the country illegally or who have a tentative immigration status, as reported by the Washington Times.
The statistics were made public due to President Trump's "Buy American and Hire American" executive order, which seeks to provide greater transparency for America's national immigration system.
Foreign nationals who entered the country illegally are using employment authorization documents (EADs) issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
These permits are given to a wide range of migrants, including asylum seekers, refugees, certain foreign students, and even beneficiaries of DACA. Nearly 90 percent of EADs are discretionary, meaning government officials have to authority to revoke them if they choose.
In the first 10 months of fiscal year 2017, approximately 160,000 EADs have been issued per month. This adds up to almost 2 million for the entire year. These figures include both the Obama and Trump administrations.
Surprisingly, the nearly 1.7 foreign-born workers that have already been added to the job market are equivalent to 25 percent of the unemployment rate in September.
"The fact that more than a million and a half work permits were issued to people outside of the regular legal immigration and guest-worker programs is alarming, and cannot help but have an impact on U.S. workers," said Jessica Vaughan, policy studies director for CIS."
The largest group of EADS–nearly a fourth–were given to illegal immigrants covered by the Obama-era DACA program. Another 17 percent were issued to asylum seekers.
President Trump last month announced the phasing out of DACA. He has called on Congress to come up with a solution for illegal immigrants brought into the country as minors.
Trump also backs the RAISE ACT, a bill sponsored by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) which would cut legal immigration by half, place a 50,000 yearly refugee cap, end the visa diversity lottery, and stop chain migration.
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Oberland Glas GmbH - founded in Bad Wurzach close to an area of peatland, with the idea of coking the peat in the vicinity of the factory and using the gas produced to heat the furnaces.
Factory purchased by Dr. H. Wiegand - Expansion of the still predominantly manual operations to become a fully automated industrial enterprise, aim: mass production to the highest standards.
Takeover of another glass manufacturing plant in Neuburg to optimise logistics by localising production.
Oberland Glas AG is floated on the stock exchange.
Oberland Glas AG buys out Ruhrglas GmbH, Essen and Westerwald AG, Wirges.
Today's international leader in glass packaging – Saint-Gobain - purchases an initial equity stake in the company of 35%, a stake that is added to steadily.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain acquires a controlling interest (60%) in the company.
Focus on container glass as the core business. Sale of RKL to Bormioli S.p.A..
Oberland Glas AG leads the German market in container glass production.
Company renamed Saint-Gobain Oberland AG to consolidate its strategic position at a global level.
Acquisition of a 35% share in ISI-Zhanjiang, China.
First commercial involvement in Russia with a 9% interest in the Kavminsteklo ZAO glassworks.
Sale of the glass block division; increase of stake in Kavminsteklo to 60 % and purchase of a majority stake (79.7%) in the Ukrainian Consumers-Sklo-Zorya glassworks.
Sale of the interest in ISI-Zhanjiang.
Acquisition of more than 90 % of shares in the ZAO Kamyshinksky Steklozarny Zawod glassworks in Kamyshin Russia.
Acquisition of further minority interests of Saint-Gobain Kavminsteklo ZAO, the shareholding in the Russian Company increased from 89,9% to 94,3%.
Introduction of the trademark Verallia for the glass packaging unit of Saint-Gobain, a symbol of a strong identity on the international market.


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One of Clinton's Economic Advisors Finds Himself in Hot Water Over Personal Loans
Gene Sperling received hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal loans from Howard Shapiro, a friend and partner at Washington law firm WilmerHale, while serving as director of the National Economic Council.
By Jesse Eisinger
Gene Sperling speaks at the White House in January 2014. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)
In 2011, Gene Sperling had a problem. He was working as President Barack Obama's chief economic advisor but his government salary did not cover his expenses. He and his wife lived in a Georgetown townhouse valued today at around $2 million, but did not have enough equity to qualify for a second mortgage or credit line. He didn't want to sell the house and he wanted to keep working at a prestigious but relatively low-paid public service job.
And so Sperling turned to a close friend from law school: Howard Shapiro. A top partner at the Washington powerhouse law firm WilmerHale, Shapiro had loaned Sperling money before and was willing to do so again. Sperling asked the White House Counsel's office and the Office of Government Ethics for permission to borrow from Shapiro, whose firm frequently negotiates with the government on behalf of some of the nation's leading corporations. Officials approved the transactions.
So in 2011, Sperling borrowed between $100,000 and $250,000 from Shapiro at 5 percent, a rate that appears to be well below the interest banks charged at the time for comparable loans. Sperling listed his borrowing on his financial disclosure forms.
In each of the next two years, Sperling went to Shapiro again, taking out two more loans that brought his debt to a total of between $300,000 and $600,000. (The forms require disclosure of a range, not specific figures.) The loans are unsecured. Sperling consolidated earlier loans from Shapiro, one made in 2006 and the 2011 loan, into the later ones.
"I have a hard time seeing how such a major law firm would not have any business pending before White House. This would appear to me to violate ethics rules. I don't see any way around it."
Today, Sperling is advising the Hillary Clinton campaign on economics. In a "Funny or Die" spoof shown last month to the Democratic National Convention, he warned that Donald Trump's policies would lead to dangerous levels of debt for the country.
Sperling served as a counselor to the secretary of the treasury in 2009 and 2010. He became the director of the National Economic Council at the White House in January 2011 and served until early 2014. Now in the private sector, he consults with a variety of companies, including the asset manager Pimco, home sharing service Airbnb, and Renovate America, a green energy finance company.
Shapiro is a partner and litigator at WilmerHale and the firm routinely represents clients with business before the federal government. Shapiro and WilmerHale's clients have included major financial institutions, such as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase.
The loans from Shapiro to Sperling were reviewed and cleared by White House Counsel and the Office of Government Ethics, according to White House spokesman Eric Schultz. No issue came before Sperling that prompted him to recuse himself.
Experts questioned whether an ordinary person could obtain hundreds of thousands of dollars in unsecured loans from a bank or other lender. Personal loans exist, but typically max out at around $40,000 or $50,000 and carry higher interest rates than what Shapiro charged his friend.
In an illustration of the typical rate for unsecured consumer loans, Sperling reported on those same forms that he had received a consumer loan in 2011 for dental care from Care Credit that carried an interest rate of 14.9 percent. That same year, he was paying 13.15 percent interest on credit card debt of between $15,000 and $50,000.
Craig Holman, a government ethics specialist of Public Citizen, said that the transactions appear to be at odds with federal ethics rules. Because the loans were at below-market rates, Holman said, Sperling received a financial benefit akin to a gift. Federal rules bar executive branch employees from accepting gifts from "prohibited sources,'' defined as anyone with business before the federal government. There can be exemptions for personal friendship, but Holman said such gifts should be barred because of the conflicts of interest they pose.
"I have a hard time seeing how such a major law firm would not have any business pending before White House,'' Holman said. "This would appear to me to violate ethics rules. I don't see any way around it."
Sperling said in a statement emailed to ProPublica that he violated no rules. "Until I left the White House in 2014 at the age of 55, I had worked every single year of my career in either public service or in near-full time non-profit work. When our savings were depleted during my most recent public service, I took personal loans from my very closest friend of more than 30 years so that I could afford to remain in public service without having to sell our house when we had only two more years left with both of our children at home. Prior to receiving the loans, I discussed them with the Office of the White House Counsel, and the White House Counsel and the Office of Government Ethics approved them. The loans were disclosed on my financial disclosure forms each year and were completely available to the public as early as four years ago. Only now, four years later has there been an effort — clearly an organized effort — to make an issue of them."
Other ethics experts were less concerned than Holman. That it was disclosed and cleared by the ethics office "takes the guy off the hook. What more is he supposed to do?" says Kenneth Gross, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom who specializes in federal gift and gratuity rules.
WilmerHale did not comment. Shapiro did not respond to calls and an email requesting comment.
Sperling spent almost his entire career in public service, working for various political campaigns and serving in the Clinton administration, where he was also director of the National Economic Council. In 2008, Sperling had income of $2.2 million, according to a Bloomberg story. He made $887,727 from Goldman Sachs and $158,000 for speeches, the majority to financial companies.
Shapiro is WilmerHale's chair of its Litigation/Controversy Department and a member of its Securities Department. He specializes in white-collar defense and complex corporate litigation. Shapiro himself was criticized for his judgment while serving in government. As the Federal Bureau of Investigation's general counsel under President Bill Clinton, Shapiro tipped off the White House about a potentially damaging Congressional investigation.
Sperling played a role in at least one matter that concerned some clients of WilmerHale. In 2012, Obama singled Sperling out to thank him for his role in the federal and state government's settlement with five major financial institutions over foreclosure and mortgage servicing abuses. WilmerHale was one of the many law firms involved in negotiating the settlement. Sperling says he was not involved in the negotiations, but only helped decide that settlement money would go toward reducing principal on mortgages for borrowers whose homes were worth less than their mortgages.
In 2011, Congress passed a patent reform law that contained an amendment that helped WilmerHale. The amendment would have relieved the law firm of a possible $214 million malpractice payment to a client.
Sperling oversaw patent reform as part of his work at the White House. Sperling says he had no involvement in the bill, which was signed by Obama in September 2011.
This story originally appeared on ProPublica as "While in the White House, Economist Received Personal Loans From Top Washington Lawyer" and is re-published here under a Creative Commons license.
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A well known retailer has started carrying a number of leading CBD brands online and in five stores, reports the Dallas-based premium luxury retailer. The CBD product offering is comprised of balms, lotions, soaps, oils, serums and masks.
"Our new CBD assortment is an important part of our commitment to the health and well-being of our customers," Kim D'Angelo, beauty buyer. "Cannabis beauty brands are becoming increasingly popular and CBD products are the next big thing in beauty.
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Album review: Soilwork "Verkligheten"
Posted on January 11, 2019 by roppongirocks
By Stefan Nilsson, Roppongi Rocks
Soilwork's sound keeps evolving while still being built around a combination of melodic rock and rather brutal metal. The new album "Verkligheten" is another masterpiece.
Since the last album, 2015's terrific "The Ride Majestic", Soilwork has lost drummer Dirk Verbeuren to Megadeth. But Dirk left Soilwork a departing gift by recommending the young drummer Bastian Thusgaard as his replacement. It sounds like that was a perfect replacement for the seemingly irreplaceable Dirk. Originally a Swedish band, Soilwork is now more of a European band consisting of Björn "Speed" Strid (vocals), Sven Karlsson (keyboards), Sylvain Coudret (guitar) and David Andersson (guitar and bass), in addition to drummer Thusgaard. "Verkligheten" is the band's eleventh full-length studio album since being founded in 1995.
Soilwork remains a tasty combination of great melodies and brutality. But the sound keeps evolving with new twists and turns. On tracks such as "Full Moon Shoals", "Stålfågel" and "The Nurturing Glance", some of the vibes of The Night Flight Orchestra (the classic rock band which includes some of Soilwork's members as well as Sharlee D'Angelo from Arch Enemy) are shining through. This is more brutal, but the beautiful melodies are present in both bands. Essentially Soilwork has a classic rock foundation and then there is an overlay of brutality added to the mix on most songs. One of my favourite tracks on the album is "The Wolves Are Back in Town", which sounds as if it comes straight from "The Ride Majestic" sessions. Glorious! On "Needles and Kin", Amorphis' powerful vocalist Tomi Joutsen provides splendid guest vocals. In addition to the album's twelve tracks, there is a bonus EP called "Underworld" featuring the songs "Summerburned and Winterblown", "In This Master's Tale", "The Undying Eye" and the original version of "Needles and Kin". I dig it. This is good stuff. Modern, relevant metal where brutality does not mean you have to get rid of beautiful melodies and where it's OK to use plenty of keyboards.
Soilwork's new album "Verkligheten" is out today via Nuclear Blast internationally and via Ward Records in Japan.
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Yet More Hot Air!
Francis Glibbery, Retired Copywriter & Latter-Day Blogster
Which game next?
By Francis Glibbery	Chelsea, Civilisation, Development, Earls Court, Europe, Morality, Public Service
Going, going nearly gone
It's nearly gone. The sky can be seen, and clear light is in the area. The views are changed. Way over in Hammersmith, the Novotel is visible from West Brompton station.
Earls Court is almost down, and with it our hopes of ever seeing this part of London look as it does are down, too.
With them, all of them, goes part of our identity. It'll soon be the case that it won't be enough to say to anyone from abroad that one lives in or near Earls Court, to explain whereabouts one comes from in London – 'in London' meaning anywhere from Harrow to Hayes or from Woodford to Weybridge. Too many times one will have to answer something other than simply "London" when one is asked where one's from. Before too much longer, the understood rider of "Earls Court" will mean nothing at all.
Of course, the developers will be glad to see the back of the unsightly old lady. But will those of us who have lived in its shadow for years be as glad? Would we be as comfortable if we were living with the 'deconstruction' of Whitehall or the Houses of Parliament? And yet, people live in their shadow, just they do here, in the shadow of Earls Court.
For now, the illusion lives on. Even on the trains – overground as well as underground – the announcer still advises travellers to 'alight here for the Earls Court Exhibition Centre', when there hasn't been an exhibition at the centre for ages. Indeed, the 'centre' hasn't been there for ages. It's being 'deconstructed'.
The developers will be glad to see a a new 'district' emerge. But how long will that take? And how many of us want to live in its shadow? The old Earls Court was good enough to entertain many of today's, and yesterday's, most popular acts. How many will flock to see who perform at what in the new 'district'?
Earls Court was a good place to be, years ago. Now it's becoming the same as anywhere else in London. It never had much of an identity, but now it has even less.
The sky may be clear, but the future – at least round here – is somewhat murky.
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Montel Williams says he's lucky to be alive after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke in May.
The former talk show host, 62, told The Blast that he "almost died" May 30 after a hotel gym workout went wrong.
The Marine and Navy veteran was quickly tended to by a nearby emergency vehicle for stroke victims, which performed a CAT scan right on the street in front of the hotel.
Williams, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999, spent 21 days in the hospital, nine of which found him in the intensive care unit.
"The only thing I remember for the first five days of the ICU is her saying, 'I love you,' " he said of Tara.
At the time, Williams' rep said that he simply "overdid it" with a workout.
Months later, the Emmy-winner says the incident was a "wakeup call," but that he's almost fully recovered.
Only 15% of all strokes are hemorrhagic, but they are responsible for 40% of stroke-related deaths, according to the National Stroke Association. They are typically caused by either a brain aneurysm or a weakened blood vessel leak.


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Doubts over wrestlers returning to camp
In: Sports
The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) may hold preparatory camps for Olympic quota holders and the medal prospects after the coronavirus subsides in the nation.
Wrestler Bajrang Punia (PTI Image)
The Wrestling Federation of India is planning to hold national camp for Olympic quota holders and the medal prospects in May end, if normalcy is restored. However the body worries that the number of grapplers might reduce significantly.
Speaking to Mail Today, WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar said organising camp at this time, even if the lockdown ends on May 3, would be 'really tough'. "I think our major wrestlers would avoid participating in the camp. Our is a contact sport and nobody would want to get infected before Tokyo Olympics. We want our players to start preparation but not at their health risk.
"If the lockdown gets over on May 3, then we will think of holding the camp in May end. But let's see what happens. We just want our wrestler to get ready for the Olympics with proper care and health," Tomar said.
Mail Today has learnt that WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh spoke to national coaches and has asked them to interact with wrestlers to draw a roadmap for the future. "We are also in constant touch with our wrestlers. They are practicing at home or the akhada where they live. Routine exercise is what they are
following right now," said Tomar.
"Jitender Kumar lives with Bajrang Punia so he is training with him. Vinesh Phogat is also working hard. Same many other wrestlers are training with their cousins or partners living with them. Everybody wants to get back to mat but the situation right now is dangerous and we want everything to sort out soon," he added.
A national coach told the paper that, "We have been in regular touch with the grapplers, especially the ones who compete in the Olympic weight categories." As many as 40 grapplers in each style — freestyle, Greco-Roman and women's wrestling — were part of the national camps before the WFI suspended them due to the deadly Coronavirus pandemic.
Notably, suspension of camps apart from closure of all akharas across the country has left wrestlers to fend for themselves. Most of them are training on their own in their respective hometowns. The United World Wrestling had postponed its championships that were planned before June 30. It had also cancelled all international tournaments in this time frame and had suggested all the national federations to cancel their events.
It will be interesting to see if the national camp happens, how many wrestlers will participate.
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Dr. Henry Peter Rosas, a highly regarded Howard County surgeon and decorated Vietnam veteran, died of lymphoma Sunday at University of Maryland Medical Center. The Glenelg resident was 63.
Dr. Rosas, the son of a barber, was born and raised in Santa Barbara, Calif. After graduating from Santa Barbara High School in 1963, he attended Santa Barbara Community College for a year before enlisting in the Navy in 1964.
While serving as a naval corpsman in Vietnam from 1966 to 1968, he was decorated with the Bronze Star for bravery.
"His concern for others went well beyond the call of duty," said his wife of 31 years, the former Teresa L. Mills. "He was awarded the Bronze Star after he crawled into a minefield while risking his life to save four badly injured Marines."
After being honorably discharged from the Navy in 1968, Dr. Rosas began to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor. He earned a bachelor's degree in zoology from California State University at Long Beach in 1972, and his medical degree in 1976 from the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara School of Medicine.
He completed a general surgical residency at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey and a residency in thoracic surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
Dr. Rosas rejoined the Navy in 1983 and later served aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy as a surgeon during the Gulf War, and headed the thoracic surgical department at the San Diego Naval Medical Center from 1991 to 1993.
After leaving the Navy with the rank of commander in 1997, Dr. Rosas moved to Columbia, where he established a general and thoracic surgical practice, and practiced at Howard County General Hospital and St. Agnes Hospital.
"Henry was a skilled and accomplished surgeon who was really loved by both the patients and staff. They really took to him. He was very endearing and had a warm and outgoing personality," said Victor A. "Vic" Broccolino, president of Howard County General Hospital.
"I don't think I've ever known a doctor as selfless as Henry," said Dr. Lisa R. Smirnow, an Eldersburg family practitioner and longtime friend of Dr. Rosas. "He always came in and did lots of pro bono work and never got paid. He volunteered and worked with a Howard County program that provided medical care to the uninsured."
"I don't think he got a good night's sleep in 20 or 30 years. They were always calling Henry, and he'd go in," she said.
Dr. Rosas also had a reputation for caring for patients other physicians had given up on, Dr. Smirnow said.
"They'd send them to Henry and he'd fix them up. He was an astute physician and wouldn't give up on them, and most of all, he wouldn't let them give up on themselves," she said. "And when he got sick, he was very brave. I don't think I'll ever meet anyone quite like him again."
After successfully treating Christine A. Gormley in 2000, Dr. Rosas became more than a physician to the Clarksville resident.
"He became like a brother and a dear friend to me. He saved my life and gave me hope when there wasn't any. He was strong, loving, compassionate, stubborn like a mule, and always there for you," Ms. Gormley said.
"He had the ability to make you feel as if you were the only patient he had in the world. When I was sick, he'd call my husband at midnight or come over and sit with him. You don't learn such compassion in medical school - you had to be born that way," Ms. Gormley said.
Despite a busy professional life, Dr. Rosas enjoyed spending time with his family, and was an avid fan of the Ravens and lacrosse.
A memorial service will be held at 5 p.m. tomorrow at Harry H. Witzke's Family Funeral Home, 4112 Old Columbia Pike, Ellicott City. Plans for interment at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors were incomplete yesterday.
Also surviving are three sons, Christopher A. Rosas and Nicolas A. Rosas, both of Glenelg, and Gabriel A. Rosas of Seattle; and a granddaughter.


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Q: Ansible: are variables for specific role and inventory possible? Let's say I have a nginx config file created from a template, which I use to configure certain hosts to redirect a server name from http to https:
server {
  listen                80;
  server_name           {{ server_name }};
  rewrite               ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;
}

Say I have two web sites hosted on the same machine:

*

*site A

*site B

each has its own server name and each needs the redirection above. At the same time let's say I have at least two separate deployment configurations, each represented by its own inventory file and its group_vars/ folder, for example:

*

*vagrant onebox

*production

each using a different server name. So now I have 2*2 = 4 separate server names:

*

*sitea.myonebox.com

*siteb.myonebox.com

*sitea.production.com

*siteb.production.com

I can't figure out how to define all of those 4 variables. I can't define two separate variables under group_vars/ because the j2 template expects only one variable name {{server_name}}, so I'd have to define the same template twice to make that work.
The other option is to have sitea and siteb as two separate roles (which I was going to do anyway), and store sever_name in roles/sitea/vars/main.yml, however that setup does not take inventory in consideration, meaning that I'd be down to 2 variables rather than 4.
Is this possible at all without template duplication or is Ansible not supporting this kind of scenario just yet?

A: If you're gonna separate them to two roles anyway, define the site names in inventory and pass them as role parameters:
    roles:
       - { role: sitea, server_name: "{{ sitea_server_name }}" }
       - { role: siteb, server_name: "{{ siteb_server_name }}" }

A: How about trying this. This may not be the answer you would expect.
:nginx.j2
server {
  listen                80;
  server_name           {% for host in groups['all'] -%}
{% if hostvars[host]['ansible_eth0']['ipv4']['address'] == ansible_eth0['ipv4']['address'] %}
{{ hostvars[host]['inventory_hostname'] }} {% endif %}{% endfor %} ;
  rewrite               ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;
}

This template will check all hosts. If group_host ip address and current_host ip address is same , add inventory_hostname to nginx config file.
Even if it is not this way, you can get inventory_hostoname in other groups or hosts by using hostvars.


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How to Use Technology to Support Remote Teams
The right training and technology can ensure that offsite workers don't feel left out.
#Arlene S. Hirsch
By Arlene S. Hirsch September 22, 2017
Illustration by Roy Scott for HR Magazine.
Remote work has its advantages—flexibility, low or no overhead costs, and a greater pipeline of applicants from which to hire. But it also has its drawbacks—less interaction, concern about whether employees are staying on task and communication challenges. Because dispersed employees may work in different cities, states, countries and time zones, they rely heavily on technology to connect and collaborate with others.
Here are tips from supervisors and workplace experts who are getting great results from their remote teams.
Before his software company's workforce became 100 percent remote, Alex Turnbull, founder and CEO of GrooveHQ, described an office where workers were there but not always present. While people generally worked well together when they needed to, many tuned out with earbuds or headphones as they tackled their day-to-day tasks. Turnbull didn't see why they needed to be in the same room all the time.
Relinquishing a physical corporate office eliminated costly real estate expenses, improved work/life balance and expanded the company's capacity to recruit top talent more quickly. But culture suffered until the staff figured out ways to maintain a sense of community through virtual and in-person meetings.
As a strategy to find the best remote employees, some companies deploy in the hiring process the same technology workers are likely to use on the job. For example, conducting virtual interviews can give employers insight into how the candidate approaches remote work, says Neil Patel, co-founder of Crazy Egg, a Seattle-based analytics company.
"It's important to understand why they work remotely and how they work," Patel says.
A well-designed onboarding process is an effective way to familiarize new employees with the people, processes and tools—such as video technology and collaboration platforms—that they need to succeed, experts say. For example, some organizations use videoconferencing tools to give new employees a virtual tour of workspaces and to introduce them to co-workers even before they start.
It's also important for company leaders to use technology themselves and provide appropriate training to the entire workforce, says Kevin Eikenberry, founder of The Kevin Eikenberry Group and co-founder of the Remote Leadership Institute in Indianapolis.
"From the ubiquitous e-mail to how to have meetings, everything is mediated through technology," he says.
That's why he asks new virtual team members to initiate 15- to 30-minute get-to-know-you phone conversations with each existing team member. The calls foster collaboration and take some of the pressure off the manager to be the sole contact person.
Other technologies that organizations provide to support virtual team members include:
Just-in-time training platforms.
Online collaboration solutions.
Web-based performance management systems that evaluate employees' accomplishments, not the hours they spend on the job.
Online recognition platforms.
Tools That Bind
Remote employees and their managers can both struggle with feeling out of touch. While supervisors may want some proof—or reassurance—that employees are actually working, virtual workers worry about being "out of sight, out of mind." To alleviate such fears, provide support tools to virtual teams to make sure each individual member is in the information loop.
In the absence of the kind of watercooler conversations that routinely take place in a traditional workplace, teams can find ways to replicate that experience virtually. Zapier, a distributed software company, fosters connectedness with weekly virtual "hangouts" where team members get together just to talk. The company also has a "Pair Buddies" program that randomly pairs teammates for a 10- to 15-minute phone call to enhance a sense of connectedness.
Many organizations hold regularly scheduled team meetings using Web-based solutions to keep remote workers from feeling alienated and disconnected. For example, GrooveHQ has regular Monday morning "kickoffs" that are a combination of chit-chat about the weekend and discussions about priorities for the upcoming week. Similarly, the team ends the workweek on Fridays with a 30-minute virtual meeting to recap the week's happenings and share customer feedback.
Teleconferencing alone may not be adequate to keep remote workers connected. Managers should use webcams as well as other video platforms to ensure that remote workers can see their co-workers, and vice versa. Managers can also provide short text and video messages to give them immediate feedback and recognition.
As you help your leadership team think through the options, you will find that there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Determining the best strategy for your remote workforce depends on your company's business model, its culture, and employees' needs and attributes.
Arlene S. Hirsch is a career counselor and author based in Chicago.
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using RexMingla.DataModel;
using System;
using System.Threading;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace RexMingla.ClipboardManager
{
    public sealed class ClipboardNotifier : IClipboardNotifier, IDisposable
    {
        public event OnClipboardChangeEventHandler OnClipboardChange;

        private static ClipboardNotifier _instance;
        private ClipboardWatcher _clipboardWatcher;

        private ClipboardNotifier()
        {
            _clipboardWatcher = new ClipboardWatcher();
        }

        public static ClipboardNotifier GetNotifier()
        {
            if (_instance == null)
            {
                _instance = new ClipboardNotifier();
            }
            return _instance;
        }

        public void Start()
        {
            ClipboardWatcher.Start();
            ClipboardWatcher.OnClipboardChange += (ClipboardContent content) =>
            {
                OnClipboardChange?.Invoke(content);
            };
        }

        public void Stop()
        {
            OnClipboardChange = null;
            ClipboardWatcher.Stop();
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            Stop();
        }

        class ClipboardWatcher : Form
        {
            // static instance of this form
            private static ClipboardWatcher _instance;

            // needed to dispose this form
            static IntPtr nextClipboardViewer;

            public delegate void OnClipboardChangeEventHandler(ClipboardContent content);
            public static event OnClipboardChangeEventHandler OnClipboardChange;

            // start listening
            public static void Start()
            {
                var t = new Thread(new ParameterizedThreadStart(x => Application.Run(new ClipboardWatcher())));
                t.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA); // give the [STAThread] attribute
                t.Start();
            }

            // stop listening (dispose form)
            public static void Stop()
            {
                _instance.Invoke(new MethodInvoker(() =>
                {
                    WinApi.ChangeClipboardChain(_instance.Handle, nextClipboardViewer);
                }));
                _instance.Invoke(new MethodInvoker(_instance.Close));

                _instance.Dispose();

                _instance = null;
            }

            // on load: (hide this window)
            protected override void SetVisibleCore(bool value)
            {
                CreateHandle();

                _instance = this;

                nextClipboardViewer = WinApi.SetClipboardViewer(_instance.Handle);

                base.SetVisibleCore(false);
            }

            protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
            {
                switch (m.Msg)
                {
                    case WinApi.WM_DRAWCLIPBOARD:
                        ClipChanged();
                        WinApi.SendMessage(nextClipboardViewer, m.Msg, m.WParam, m.LParam);
                        break;

                    case WinApi.WM_CHANGECBCHAIN:
                        if (m.WParam == nextClipboardViewer)
                            nextClipboardViewer = m.LParam;
                        else
                            WinApi.SendMessage(nextClipboardViewer, m.Msg, m.WParam, m.LParam);
                        break;

                    default:
                        base.WndProc(ref m);
                        break;
                }
            }

            private void ClipChanged()
            {
                IDataObject data = Clipboard.GetDataObject();
                if (data == null)
                {
                    return;
                }
                OnClipboardChange?.Invoke(data.ToClipboardContent());
            }
        }
    }
}

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Hwange National Park is the largest National Park in Zimbabwe and lies on the main road between Bulawayo and Victoria Falls. It was founded in around 1928 by 22 yr old game ranger Ted Davison. The park covers 14,600 sq km, and is close to the edge of the Kalahari desert. It is the only protected area in Zimbabwe where brown hyena occur in high numbers. Elephant numbers in Hwange are also good, and it is fantastic to see these wild giants thriving in Zimbabwe.