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If you missed the first parts to this series, here are the links: Amanuensis Monday: Not My Henry Bryant's Civil War Pension File --Part One, Amanuensis Monday: Not My Henry Bryant's Civil War Pension File --Part Two, Amanuensis Monday: Not My Henry Bryant's Civil War Pension File --Part Three.
The purpose of these posts again is to share information about a Henry Bryan who's Civil War pension file I had originally purchased hoping it would show information regarding my 3rd great grandfather, Henry Bryant of Morehead City, NC. My 3rd great grandfather on the 1870 census resided in Beaufort, Carteret County, NC. It turns out that the Henry Bryan who's pension file I have actually resided in Beaufort County, NC and was single. Anyway, I thought the information that I came across could perhaps help someone someday who is searching for this particular individual who served in the 37th Regiment of the U.S.C.T. Vols..
In the matter of Henry Bryan Pension claim certificate# 827060 on this 15th day of July 1897. Personally appeared before me a Notary Republic for and within the county & state aforesaid Henry Bryan age 50 years Resident & post office Washington Beaufort Co N.C.
who being duly sworn according to law declares as follows I am the identical Henry Bryan who was a pensioner under act of June 27 1890 by certificate# 827060 at rates of $12 per month and on or about May 1895 I was cut down to eight dollars per month on the grounds that the medical division held that I was not intitile to $12 per month. And I have only been drawing $8 per month from May 4th 1895 to the present. And I made an application for the $12 per month with the return of my notice also forward on testimony and I have not heard from same since & I have not been ordered for medical examination since and I make this statement for the purpose of having a hearing in regard to my old claim under act of June 27 1890 please inform me at the earliest date what is the cause of delay of said claim if more testimony is needed please notify me at the earliest date testimony is on file. I am unable to do any manual labor whatever by reason of complication of disease which one not due to any vicious habits. I hereby about W H Pender of Washington, Beaufort Co N.C. as my legal and lawful agent to prosents this claim & ask that he be paid according to act of congress My P O is Washington N. C.
Sworn subscribed to before one this 15th July 1897 and I certify same was read over to him before he executed the same.
Some of those poor men had such difficulty getting and maintaining their pensions. All those letters back to back is what make their records so interesting.
Linda, that is what I find so interesting and what breaks my heart. You can hear in the tone of the letter his dismay. I wish I could go back in time and smack someone upside their head and get him his money.


The Penalty (1920): I dissect this macabre Lon Chaney crime picture and examine how the film improves on the original novel.
The Forty-First (1927): A dark Soviet romance about a Red Army sniper who falls for a czarist officer. I also cover the sound remake.
The Great White Silence (1925): An extremely deep dive into Captain Scott's doomed expedition and the motion picture made from real footage from same.
The Bargain (1914): William S. Hart's first feature and a rootin' tootin' western comedy. A delightful romp.
The Devil's Needle (1916): Norma Talmadge plays a model and junkie in this social picture. If you don't "get" Talmadge, do check this one out.
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I wonder, Fritzi, if there is a perfect silent movie for someone suffering from a cold. Perhaps something with Nell Shipman cuddling animals? Any ideas, anyone? Feel better soon.
Nell Shipman sounds good to me!
Personally, I'd recommend Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, or pretty much anything made on Roach's Lot of Fun. Nothing like some laughs to take your mind off your health issues.
As DeAnna said upthread, I too am (virtually) bringing you an order of the soup I had for lunch: chicken noodle/matzo ball with plenty of schmaltz, straight from Art's Deli in Studio City. Good for what ails you.
I'm sorry you're ailing– But I'm enjoying your reviews. I have to see The Great White Silence– but not just before I go to bed.


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Japan Court: Ban On Same-Sex Marriage Is 'Unconstitutional'
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A district court in Japan has ruled that the country's lack of recognizing same-sex marriage is "unconstitutional."
The ruling is the first one to address the legality of same-sex marriages in the country. The case that brought the issue into focus was one of many cases that came to district courts in the country and involved a collection of same-sex couples who sought "damages for mental suffering," as reported by BBC.
The cases were brought forward in 2019. At the time, BBC reported that the couples were "suing for symbolic damages, arguing that being barred from marriage violates their constitutional rights. Should the courts agree, it would mean same-sex unions will have to be permitted in future."
The Sapporo court involved in the ruling on Wednesday did not agree with the plaintiffs' claim made for compensation of one million yen ($9,000), however, it did state that not permitting same-sex couples to get married is unconstitutional. Even though the plaintiffs did not win on the grounds of their original complaint, many LGBT activists are considering the ruling a win.
One of the plaintiffs to bring the case, Ai Nakajima, told BBC, "This is one huge step forward in Japan … We are moving closer to making our dream come true."
The Associated Press reports the court found that not permitting same-sex couples to marry is discriminatory, violating Article 14 of the Japanese constitution, which prohibits discrimination "because of race, creed, sex, social status or family origin." The court found that sexuality, similar to gender and race, is not a matter of personal preference, so not allowing same-sex couples to have the same advantages as heterosexual couples cannot be legitimized.
According to the AP, the court said, "Legal benefits stemming from marriages should equally benefit both homosexuals and heterosexuals."
The Asian country is the only nation in the G7 collection of developed countries that does not currently permit same-sex marriage. Same-sex couples have been allowed to receive partnership certificates in Japan since 2015. In 2017, Sapporo became the first major city in Japan to start giving out the documents. As of January, Kyodo News reports that 74 municipalities were administering the certificates in the country. However, the certificates are not legally binding. They allow gay and lesbian couples to have some rights, but not as many as married couples. According to the AP, "Same-sex couples cannot inherit their partner's houses, property and other assets or have parental rights to any children."
Support for same-sex marriage and LGBT rights seems to have grown in Japan in recent years. Kyodo News reports, "In a 2018 survey conducted by advertising giant Dentsu Inc., at least one in 11 people between 20 to 59 years old identified themselves as LGBT. The poll also showed 78.4 percent approved or were likely to approve of same-sex marriage. However 65.1 percent of LGBT respondents said they had not told anyone about their sexuality."
Japan's constitution states: "Marriage shall be based only on the mutual consent of both sexes and it shall be maintained through mutual cooperation with the equal rights of husband and wife as a basis."
As NPR reported in 2019, the lawsuits brought forward state that the phrasing of the constitution needs to be reexamined in modern times and in consideration of other sections of the constitution that ensure equality.
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Date: 11 January 2023 to 13 January 2023
Location: ICTP Triste (IT)
MaX partners are attending the "21st International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods", the important workshop is held in Trieste every two years, since 1987, and devoted to recent advances in condensed matter physics and materials science, based on realistic calculations of the electronic structure of complex systems.
The aim of the workshop is a critical discussion of methods and challenging applications. It has become one of the most popular regular events of the international ab-initio electronic structure community. This event also has the ambition to reach out to countries where the electronic structure community is not traditionally as strong as in Europe, the USA and Japan, in coherence with the mission of its host institution, the ICTP.
The workshop will also include the Award ceremony for the "Walter Kohn prize for quantum mechanical material modeling" (https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/prizes-awards/walter-kohn-prize.aspx), co-funded by ICTP and the Quantum ESPRESSO Foundation.
MaX appointments:
on January 12 Stefano Baroni (SISSA) will introduce the Quantum Espresso Foundation
on January 13 Andrea Ferretti (CNR) will talk about "Functional theory of the spectral density via local embedding".
While on January 11 and January 13 Emilio ARtacho (ICN2) will respectively introduce the workshop and make some conclusions.
Check further MaX contributions to the workshop on the complete programme
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Natural alternatives to feminizing hormones: Is there truth to the claims?
Have you heard that some herbs and foods contain chemicals called "phytoestrogens" that work like estrogen in the body? Ever seen products being sold over the counter advertised to "feminize naturally" or "prevent hot flashes during menopause"? Or read conversations online about using over the counter products to feminize instead of prescribed hormones? Did you stop and wonder if there was truth to the claims? Let's do a quick overview and do some debunking!
Phytoestrogens are estrogen-like chemicals made by plants. Just like how the tobacco plant makes nicotine to defend itself against insects, phytoestrogens are thought to have a protective effect for the plant. One of the most commonly known phytoestrogen is soy isoflavone, which is found in soy beans and soy products. However other plants produce this compounds too. Red clover is another commonly found herb in herbal products.
As a side note: There are three forms of estrogen in the human body that are commonly talked about. Estradiol is the strongest. The type of estrogen used in modern-day hormone therapy is estradiol. So when you see estradiol in the rest of the article, feel free to mentally substitute "estrogen".
Is it possible that phytoestrogens can feminize?
First, let's talk about dose. Phytoestrogens are found in very small doses in foods, or in slightly higher doses in supplements.
Medical transition requires high doses of hormones. A typical dose of estrogen today, when combined with an anti-androgen is around 4mg a day. Before antiandrogens were introduced, doses equivalent to 12mg of estradiol a day were used*. That's a lot of hormone.
Phytoestrogen products do not come with an anti-androgen. Is it possible that they're reaching the equivalent dose of 12mg of estradiol a day? Doses found in Canadian products ranged from 1mg to 35mg of phytoestrogens. So if phytoestrogens are equal in strength to estradiol, perhaps.
But that's a big assumption. The body absorbs different drugs from the digestive tract in different amounts. Then that drug goes through the liver, where some portion may be activated or deactivated. And then it has to circulate around in the blood stream, find its way into the tissues of the body, and find its target. Pharmaceutical drugs have all these factors measured and calculated, so that the dose you're given should ensure a certain dose is delivered into your tissues in the end. These herbs have not been studied in that way — so until more research is done, it's difficult to know how much actually gets to the tissues. And it's known that phytoestrogens bind to estrogen receptors only weakly, so they're likely to have a weaker effect than estradiol.
In the doses that are being taken, do they have any effect?
As far as I can tell from the evidence, no. Phytoestrogens are marketed to cis women for relief from hot flashes. A study from 2003 published in JAMA found that they do not provide significant relief from hot flashes. Most of the clinical evidence that I've seen agrees with that study.
In cis men, phytoestrogens do not affect testosterone levels and does not feminize.
Worse, one study found that among cis women, those who were taking phytoestrogens had lower levels of estrogen in their blood than women who were not taking phytoestrogens.
While in theory phytoestrogens may possibly help with feminization, I see no medical evidence to suggest that they actually do.
Do phytoestrogens provide a consistent dose? Do the pills contain what they say they contain? Is there any regulation?
No. The dose ranges from company to company, pill to pill, season to season. Companies all have their own special formulations with different sources and types of phytoestrogens.
In the United States, supplements are not regulated by the FDA like drugs are. They're in a special category. There are no independent checks to make sure the supplement is safe before it goes to market. There are no guarantees that the bottle actually has what it says it has. A Canadian study found wide variation in the amounts of phytoestrogens in various products.
Phytoestrogen supplements may seem to offer an accessible, easy way to feminize. However, there's little to no evidence behind their use. And since they're supplements, you're never sure of what you'll be getting. If you want to eat foods that are high in phytoestrogen, they're not likely to do you harm. But from what I can tell of the literature, you're better off saving that $20 to pay for an estrogen prescription.
If you're having difficulty finding a physician who's will prescribe hormone therapy, I urge you to call your local transgender or LGBT center, or visit the WPATH or GLMA website for provider listings.
*: These formulations were often from conjugated estrogens, which use a slightly different dosing. Doses of conjugated estrogens ranged from 7.5 to 10mg/day, and .625mg of conjugated estrogens is roughly equivalent to 1mg of oral estradiol. My figure of 12 mg of estrogen was using the "low" dosage of 7.5mg.


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Thirty per cent seems to be the magic number when it comes to inclusion.
It's the tipping point from tokenism to creating real change. "We didn't pull that number out of the air," says Sarah Gauen, Inclusion and Diversity Specialist at Algonquin College. "30 per cent is the number that's been proven—when you look at boardrooms, when you look at team interactions—if you have 30 per cent representation for one group, that's the number when you start to get meaningful interactions and when the contributions of women in particular start to make a difference."
This number has been picked up by the Ontario Securities Commission as a requirement at the board level for representation for women, and Algonquin is using it as a goal post for enrollment in their tech programs. They came up with the We Saved You a Seat program as a way to combat gender imbalance in enrollment. The program reserves 30 per cent of classroom seats for qualified women in four STEM programs: Computer Systems Technician, Electrical Engineering Technician, Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technician, and Mechanical Engineering Technology.
"We started to take a look at the composition of our students, and looking at the numbers we realized that we had a bit of a challenge in some of our tech programs—the persistent underrepresentation of women in technology," Gauen explains. "We looked back through about 10 years of enrollment and graduation, and we saw that women pretty consistently made up only 10 per cent of enrollment in many of our programs, or less."
The reason why women are underrepresented in STEM subjects is long and complex. From being told that they won't be as good as boys at certain subjects to increased anxiety when it comes to test taking because of that narrative, girls often self-screen out. In addition, a major factor in applying for a program is the perception of belonging—it is this factor that Algonquin is trying to combat with the We Saved You a Seat program, by making sure there are a substantial number of women in the classroom to reduce that feeling of isolation.
"We looked back through about 10 years of enrollment and graduation, and we saw that women pretty consistently made up only 10 per cent of enrollment in many of our programs, or less."
"We know from our research that when there is gender diversity in the classroom, test scores go up for everyone," says Gauen. "And this will help the guys as well. We're hoping that employers will recognize that Algonquin is developing soft skills; when young men and women graduate they will have the social skills to get along in the workplace."
Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technician Program
In addition to encouraging women to enroll, they will also provide training for faculty on how to teach more effectively in gender-inclusive classrooms. "The first thing we needed instructors to understand is why women have been unsuccessful in STEM programs in the past, and how that lack of success is linked to teaching," Gauen explains. "So we focused on what they can do to help women be more successful." They are also encouraging faculty to arrange group projects to encourage participation and to use diversity in the curriculum by using case studies of women who have achieved success in their field.
They are also working toward making sure that financial limitations aren't stopping women from partaking in these programs by setting up scholarships and bursaries for women in STEM. Corporate donors are already stepping up to provide scholarships under the program. Algonquin is making sure the participants have ongoing support as they move through the program. They are launching a mentorship program for participants to get advice from industry mentors, both men and women, who will coach and guide them on both studying and working in the industry after graduation, so they can really see themselves in the workplace.
Electrical Engineering Technician Program
"Ottawa's situated itself as a tech capital—we're Silicon Valley North," says Gauen. "We're building up Kanata North, we're the home of the AGDA Group—these are great tech firms, but they need the talent to stay here. Algonquin College is making sure we have great talent, both men and women, who are connected with industry and coming out ready to work. By building a great talent pool here we're more likely to keep these great employers hiring out of our community. We're a part of the growth of Ottawa."
Feature: Women in Stem - Progress, But More Needs to Be Done


The response I've gotten from WALLFLOWER has been great. It's nice to see so many people pick up what I'm laying down, and really get it. When I started writing, I never wanted to be lumped into one category. Authors like Lansdale and McCammon are great at appeasing their readers no matter the genre. That's what I wanted to do. Dark fiction sums it up pretty well for me I guess.
I had a giveaway recently (congratulations Joli and Stubblebag!). I have them from time to time for those signed up to my reader list. If interested, you can do that here. Don't worry, you'll barely hear from me.
Shadow Work Publishing has a new book out. Dark Designs: Tales of Mad Science. Tons of stories dealing with....well, mad science. This features my story "Discerning the Adversary."
I've been working on a few stories that had deadlines and then it's back to work on PALE WHITE, which I hope to have out this summer.


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Q: get maximum value of column Hi i have a file like this (with n-lines):
0.001  5.4e+08
0.03  0.08
0.5774  0.1
93  9832

now i want to read the maximum value of each column.
i tried awk like this:
awk -v "max=0.2" -v "index=1" 'BEGIN{if (index>max) max=index} END {print max}' file

and asign the output to a variable.
Only typing the awk command in the shell gives me this error:
awk: run time error: cannot command line assign to index
    type clash or keyword
    FILENAME="" FNR=0 NR=0

The Problem is that the file has n-lines and i am only looping over certain lines.
How can i give awk the line to work on and read out the maximum value of the column of that line?

A: index() is the name of an awk function, pick a different variable name like idx.
Also, to print the max value of an "index" you don't need to seed the max with some ad-hoc value, it would just be:
$ awk -v idx=1 'NR==1 || $idx>max{max=$idx} END{print max}' file
93

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Gargždai  (,  (Gorschdy) bis 1917, ) ist eine Stadt im Westen Litauens in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft der Großstadt Klaipėda (Memel) und hat daher entgegen dem Trend bei kleineren Städten wachsende Einwohnerzahlen. Es hat den Status eines Stadtamtes (miesto seniūnija) in der Rajongemeinde Klaipėda.

Geographische Lage
Gargždai liegt etwa 18 Kilometer östlich von Klaipėda an der als Autobahn ausgebauten Fernstraße Magistralinis kelias A1 von Klaipėda nach Kaunas und Vilnius. Durch den Ort fließt die Minija (Minge).
Garsden liegt fast unmittelbar an der alten ostpreußisch-litauischen Grenze, die früher ebenso die ostpreußisch-russische Grenze war; das erste ostpreußische Dorf an der Grenze bei Garsden war Laugallen (heute litauisch Laugaliai).

Geschichte
Der Ort wurde erstmals 1253 als Garisda erwähnt. Die litauische Ortschaft kam im Rahmen der Ersten Polnischen Teilung 1772 zu Russland. Das Stadtrecht wurde 1792 verliehen. Im März 1831 wurde auch Garsden Schauplatz des sich gegen die russische Herrschaft richtenden Novemberaufstands.

1939 wurde die Bibliothek des Rajons Klaipėda errichtet. Garsden hatte bis zum Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkrieges eine deutsch-litauisch gemischte Bevölkerung.

Im Jahr 1940 wurde die Stadt von der Roten Armee eingenommen, 1941–1944 war sie von der Deutschen Wehrmacht besetzt.

In Gargždai wurde das erste Holocaust-Verbrechen im Machtbereich der Sowjetunion verübt. Am 24. Juni 1941 erschossen hier deutsche Polizeieinheiten etwa 200 männliche jüdische Einwohner. Diese Tat war auch Gegenstand des Ulmer Einsatzgruppen-Prozesses. Ende August/Anfang September 1941 wurden dann die bis dahin gefangen gehaltenen jüdischen Frauen und Kinder des Ortes durch litauische Hilfspolizisten erschossen.

Heutige Stadt

In Gargždai befindet sich der Sitz das Kreisgerichts Klaipėda.

Die 1965 eröffnete Musikschule ist seit 1992 im ehemaligen Gebäude des örtlichen Parteikomitees der Kommunistischen Partei Litauens untergebracht, das in den 1950er Jahren im Stil des
Sozialistischen Klassizismus errichtet worden ist.

Die moderne katholische Kirche des Heiligen Erzengels Michael mit einem 53 Meter hohem Turm wurde von 1990 bis 1992 erbaut, Architekt Vladas Lučinskas. Vom Vorgängerbau erhalten ist der historische Glockenturm aus Felssteinmauerwerk.

Die Kapelle auf dem Kirchhof von Gargždai wurde von 1840 bis 1841 im klassizistischen Stil als Mausoleum für die damaligen Kirchenpatrone, dem deutschbaltischen Adelsgeschlecht Rönne, errichtet.

Von wirtschaftlicher Bedeutung ist der in Gargždai ansässige Futtermittelhersteller Mars Lietuva.

Der FK Banga Gargždai ist der in bedeutendste Fußballverein der Stadt.

Personen
 Eduardas Vilkas (1935–2008), Mathematiker und Politiker
 Leonas Virginijus Papirtis (* 1949), Rechtsanwalt und Politiker
 Andrius Narbekovas (* 1959), Theologe, Chirurg und Professor
 Arminas Narbekovas (* 1965), Fußballspieler
 Ramunė Visockytė (* 1967), Journalistin und Politikerin
 Monika Linkytė (* 1992), Sängerin, vertrat Litauen beim Eurovision Song Contest 2015
 Natanas Žebrauskas (* 2002), Fußballspieler

Einzelnachweise

Stadtamt in Litauen
Ort in der Rajongemeinde Klaipėda
Ort an der Minija

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Q: remote rejected master -> master (pre-receive hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to I've been stuck in this problem for almost all day now and haven't found any appropriate solution though there are some out there. No matter what I do the error is always the same for me. So, I created this project to learn ASP.NET Core MVC which already had git init and posted it here: https://github.com/thechaudharysab/IBJOffice
Now today I decided to take this project online and see if it works or not or how I can make it LIVE on the cloud using Heroku (because it's free & I didn't want to use Azure yet).
I installed Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.CommandLine and added using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration; in my program.cs class and then in it's main method I added:
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var config = new ConfigurationBuilder().AddCommandLine(args).Build();
    var host = new WebHostBuilder()
        .UseKestrel()
        .UseContentRoot(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory())
        .UseConfiguration(config)
        .UseIISIntegration()
        .UseStartup<Startup>()
        .Build();

    host.Run();
}

If right now I check git status there is nothing to commit as my branch is up to date with 'origin/master' on GitHub. So now I want to push the code to Heroku and for that I'm doing this:
git add .
git commit -m "heroku update'
heroku create --buildpack https://github.com/noliar/dotnet-buildpack.git -a ibjoffice
heroku git:remote -a ibjoffice
git push heroku master

Every single time I get this error:

If I write git remote -v I get these four:

Since I'm new to .NET Core so I might have made a mistake or missed something that is why to the best of my knowledge I've added everything let me know if there is any information that is missing I'll add it.
Here is why I think (to my limited basic knowledge) can be the reason:

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*The build pack I'm using https://github.com/noliar/dotnet-buildpack is too old and might not be feasible with a .NET project created a couple of weeks ago.

*The code I wrote in program.cs might be wrong as I was unable to run the project after I updated the main method it just keeps on loading and loading when I run it locally.

*git remote -v shows four may be they just have to be two and its making a confusion and causing the error.

*There are some solution that are talking about a file named app.json and I don't have any such file my my project as you can see full project here: https://github.com/thechaudharysab/IBJOffice
So these are my guesses. Would really appropriate any help.

A:
heroku create --buildpack https://github.com/noliar/dotnet-buildpack.git -a ibjoffice

--> https://github.com/noliar/dotnet-buildpack/blob/master/bin/detect
It checks for a presence of project.json.
Your project is lacking a project.json and thus is not compatible with the buildpack. Hence the Push rejected.
This check is extremely basic. So even if you now add this file to your project there may be other issues you are going to run into.


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What will make the 'risk-adviser' agency successful
Without regulatory authority, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency needs to gain the trust of agencies and state and local partners. (ipopba/Getty Images)
The agency branding itself as the nation's "risk adviser" now has a strategic plan. But to fulfill that role, an organization with minimal power now has to prove its value to its target customers.
In a speech at Auburn University Aug. 22, Chris Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, laid out his vision for the next few years, with responsibilities ranging from election security to supply chain security, as well as physical security.
But there are significant challenges in achieving its missions, which Krebs summed up in an appeal to federal, state, local and academics to cooperate with his agency.
"I don't have mandatory or compulsory or regulatory authorities, generally speaking, to make anyone do things," Krebs said. "Whatever we do has to be done together, and in cybersecurity that is the only way we're going to get it done. It has to be a collective defense approach."
Now, CISA, which was established as its own agency late last year and is responsible for protecting critical infrastructure form cyberattacks, has to figure out how to operate effectively in a broad docket of spaces where the federal government has minimal authority — particularly in election security, where revelations from 2016 have shown the state and local governments have a pained relationship working with the federal government.
"Firstly, they need to genuinely be good partners with state, local and others and deliver what they promise," Frank Cilluffo, director of the McCrary Institute for Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection at Auburn University, told Fifth Domain. "While the flip side is obviously, the stakeholders need to be open to assistance, so that's something that obviously is going to take some time."
To be successful, CISA must build trust with state and local governments, several cybersecurity experts told Fifth Domain. CISA has been working toward strengthening its partnerships, with field staff in all 50 states.
"They need to lead through ideas and influence," said Brad Medairy, executive vice president and cyber and engineering lead at Booz Allen Hamilton. "And so, because it's not a mandate, I think that they can still be successful, but they've got to produce hard, crisp, meaningful and valuable recommendations that can be adopted."
A common complaint from states in a Senate report on the 2016 election was that the warnings they received from the federal government did not provide the proper context about the threats they faced. Medairy said CISA needs to produce "meaningful and actionable information," which will result in a "groundswell of credibility."
"The more that you do that, then the more folks will be [willing] to accept it and adopt it," Medairy said.
CISA's strategic intent document laid out a doctrine of "defend today; secure tomorrow" and identified five of the most pressing issues in the countryfor the next few years: China, supply chain and 5G; election security; soft target security; federal cybersecurity; and industrial control systems.
"They cannot do it alone; there's never enough funding available for any one organization to tackle these kind of problems," said Brett Scarborough, director of business strategy for cyber services at Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services. "So they've got to leverage partnerships … they have to grow and with trust, those partnerships will grow."
CISA leadership chooses their words with caution, carefully considering the semantics of each word it puts in documents or what officials say publicly. Ultimately, they settled on their role as "risk adviser," not risk manager.
"They were wise to go with adviser over manager," Cilluffo said. "Because when you're the manager, that assumes you have control. … The truth is they don't. But they do have some capabilities that others desperately need."
For federal cybersecurity, the challenge for CISA, much like the challenge it faces with states, is that each agency is in charge of its cybersecurity. In order to achieve its goals, CISA has to ensure that stakeholders know that CISA is there to help.
CISA re-branded itself last year, changing its name from the National Protection and Programs Directorate to its current name. Several people interviewed for this story said that the change is an important step for raising its profile. But a former senior federal cybersecurity official with knowledge of CISA's operation said that CISA now has to make sure that stakeholders outside of DHS know that it's the agency to come to for cybersecurity needs.
For example, the federal government needs to figure out what role CISA plays with sector-specific agencies that have critical infrastructure jurisdiction, like the Department of Energy, the official said. In areas where users have to voluntarily use CISA, the agency has to demonstrate the value of participating. The former official said that CISA hasn't laid out in the strategic intent document how it plans to do that.
Krebs said in his speech that, down the road, he's looking at CISA potentially being used "as a service."
"We need to make sure that we are understanding what's happening across the entirety of the federal government so that we can manage risk," Krebs said. "So if we see something hitting one department, we can look for it in other departments and agencies. The way historically it's been managed, that capability is not been in place."
CISA currently manages two cybersecurity programs for agencies. The first, known as the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program, helps agencies with the management of data protection, asset management, identity and access management and network security. CISA also runs EINSTEIN, a program that detects and blocks cyberattacks on federal civilian agencies and gives DHS the ability to use attack information to help protect other agencies.
To reinforce its programs and agency support, however, CISA faces the same problem that challenge private industry and federal departments: finding people to work there.
CISA, of course, also has to directly compete for cyber talent with other agencies and private industry, which makes it harder for them to recruit talent. Several experts pointed to this problem as a hindrance for CISA in its mission. But some also pointed to the "CISA-as-a-service" model as one that could solve ease this hardship.
"There's not enough technical cyber talent to go around, so if everyone is trying to replicate the same capabilities it not only costs more, but you're not going to be able to get the same talent because everyone is in this competition for top talent," Medairy said. "So I think if you could have this one elite cell that's providing that capability as a service, you're just going to get a lot better results."
Taking on such a large swath of threats, from cybersecurity to physical security, is a broad range of oversight. But it's one that some experts told Fifth Domain makes sense.
"I don't think any event is going to be exclusively physical or cyber," said Cilluffo. "Many events will not be one domain or the other. Technology enables and enhances physical attacks from the perpetrator … and from the defender [perspective] you've got to be able to integrate both of those siloes that have historically been treated separately."
About Andrew Eversden
Andrew Eversden is a federal IT and cybersecurity reporter for the Federal Times and Fifth Domain. He previously worked as a congressional reporting fellow for the Texas Tribune and Washington intern for the Durango Herald. Andrew is a graduate of American University.
Top DHS cyber official discusses when Iran may retaliate in cyberspace
January 17 at 3:37 PM
Worried about a cyberattack from Iran? Here's how feds prepare
How one official wants to increase DHS cyber efficiency
January 14 at 9:44 AM
DHS cyber agency releases advisory on Iranian threats
New ways Homeland Security wants to attack cyber breach reporting


NBA Youngboy isn't wasting any time, despite being just 18.
Since breaking out with hits 'No Smoke, 'Untouchable' and 'Outside Today', the Baton Rouge rapper hasn't stopped. Tapes, features and even a joint tape with Moneybagg Yo have followed his initial success, with varying results.
His latest EP, 4Loyalty, is his best work since the aforementioned hits were released in quick succession. In particular the piano-heavy ballad 'Permanent Scar' featuring Young Thug and Quando Rondo has to be considered one of the best rap tracks of the year so far.
NBA wants to make a statement: his legacy will last beyond most others, he's left the rap game with a permanent scar, as he boasts on a contagious chorus that has him singing over melodious hums. Unselfishly, YoungBoy offers Young Thug the first verse, followed by Quondo, allowing himself to close the song with a boisterous third verse.
It's difficult to pick a best verse, Thug announces his impending feature by harmonising with NBA on the opening chorus, while Quondo confounds expectations with an effortlessly cool verse that slides into the third chorus. The feature is huge for Quondo, who is now slowly establishing himself as one of the hottest talents out.


fire in his crude, primitive way. He lay beside the fire and fell asleep.
ever seen and he fell in love with her at first sight.
snake was struck right through the eyes and brain.
scream, as she modestly tried to cover her body with her long dark hair.
protecting arm around her lovely shoulders. Gratitude and admiration were all over her pretty face.
the great Kabunian not to see her at noon, consented.
days, his curiosity mounted more and more and at last, it grew out of bounds.
weapon to kill the crocodile when suddenly he saw his wife on the bed instead of the crocodile. His wife was dying.
his punishment for having broken his promise made in the name of Kabunian.


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Susannah York is 5' 6 1/2".
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Susannah York was born on January 9, 1939.
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Exploring the Past as a Bridge to the Future: Exploring the Past as a Bridge to the Future: AIANY Social Science and Architecture Committee Creates an Open Resource
Exploring the Past as a Bridge to the Future
Exploring the Past as a Bridge to the Future: AIANY Social Science and Architecture Committee Creates an Open Resource
Reader appearance
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Eve Klein, City University of New York
Since its founding in 2016, the Social Science and Architecture Committee at the AIANY chapter has brought together professionals and students from architecture and social science fields to discuss best practices and facilitate public programs. These meetings, workshops, think-tank dinners and panel discussions offer a place and time to exchange ideas related to social science and architecture collaborations, environmental design research, and other topics.
This program examined points at which the disciplines have intersected in the past, changes in this relationship over time, and exploration of future possibilities. The committee will continue to serve as a forum for thought leaders in architecture, anthropology, psychology, health care, hospitality, and real estate who are looking to understand how these fields can respond to design challenges of the future.
Since its founding in early 2016, the Social Science and Architecture Committee of the American Institute of Architects New York chapter (AIANY), has worked to broaden perspectives and expand resources at the intersection of social science and architecture. The committee brings together professionals and students these fields to facilitate programs for the community throughout the year. Meetings, workshops, think tank dinners, and panel discussions offer venues in which to exchange ideas related to the human experience of the built environment, from case studies of past collaborations to environmental design research. The committee's events have welcomed thought leaders in architecture, anthropology, psychology, healthcare, hospitality, and real estate who seek to understand how design can respond to current and future challenges. For example, at the annual program, "Social Science and Architecture Primer", experts discussed the relevance of past knowledge and practices to current-day environmental design research. Another program, "Exploring the Past and Defining the Future," examined the history of social science and architecture collaborations: where they have intersected, changes in their relationship over time, and possible future developments.
In 2018, the committee received a Committee Excellence Grant from AIANY to document this growing body of knowledge and make it available to the broader public. This has led to the development of a new resource that is part of the AIANY website. Currently under development, it is built to connect active practitioners in design, research and academia to a wealth of tools, information and thought leadership. Developed in response to the needs of this multifaceted community, this new website collects existing scholarly literature, expert views on key themes, case studies, a timeline of key points in the history of environmental design, guidance on evidence-based methods, a speakers bureau and examples of best practices. It makes use of visually appealing graphics in order to make this conversation accessible to a wide audience. The website is intended to be forward-looking and continuously updated, bridging the gap between knowledge creation and application.
The creation of this resource is especially relevant to EDRA because the Social Science and Architecture Committee's work has both drawn from and served a community of scholar/practitioners who seek to learn from the past in order to shape the future. Making these materials available to the public provides a platform to engage in a global conversation that connects people, projects and networks in real time, while also enabling others to create similar communities on a local scale.
The committee's work centers on four themes at the intersection of these disciplines:
Integrating Social Research and Design Practice
While social science has a long history of delivering insights into the way people and groups function, those findings have not always been integrated into design practice. This is to our collective detriment, as the spaces we spend our time in have a large influence on the nature of our experience—whether we are at work, at play, or at home. Failure to consider the full range of human needs and goals has often led to environments that do not adequately support comfort, wellness, collaboration, or performance.
The Social Science and Architecture Committee aims to remedy this disconnect by facilitating the development of stronger links between architecture and other fields of expertise that can inform better design. This includes providing opportunities for architects to expand their knowledge in social research through lectures, panels, case studies, and more. We also advocate for an increase in social science course work in architectural education programs, to ensure that future designers begin their careers with the human experience in mind.
Some of the questions we explore:
Why is it important to integrate social scienceresearch into design practice? What is the benefit of doing so?
If this research is yielding performance benefits, why wouldn't/shouldn't a practitioner keep that information private? Why share?
In what ways are architecture educators currently succeeding in integrating social research? In what ways are they failing to do so, and why does that matter?
Are there kinds ofsocial research or practices that present ethical challenges? Are there some things we should not do?
How has environmental psychology been integrated into architectural practice to date?
What are the trends in the kinds ofresearch scientists have been using, or sectors of the economy that have been more or less open to using this approach?
Methods: Social Science in Action
Insights from social science can be employed at multiple points throughout a designproject, to a wide variety of ends. Pre-design analysis, post-occupancy refits, and everything in between stand to gain from a greater understanding of what people want and need from their spaces. While there is a growing body of knowledge for designers to draw from, there is a gap between the researchfindings and our collective ability to incorporate those findings into design. This is true at both a projectscale and at an industry scale.
We aim to fill that gap by providing a forum for discussion of this research and its design implications. We examine methods such as inclusive or participatory design and cross-sectional study, as well as quantitative and qualitative analysis. We also see a need to continue to build shared knowledge through tracking or documenting the human impacts of various forms and materials. It is our goal to improve the big picture, advocating for ways to implement these methods more systematically, creating new standards, and devising next generation models to anticipate design performance.
Some of the questions we try to explore:
How can designers come up with a strategic approach to incorporate social science, rather than cherry-picking individual findings or methods?
How do social sciencemethods enable better pre-design work? What kinds of insights do they generate?
Who is leading the way in developing and implementing these methods?
How can designers and researchers develop shared methodologies and access to data sets through mutually agreed protocol?
A key challenge in any collaboration is developing strong communication. Architecture and social science have not historically shared a lexicon or means of representing information. As a result, practitioners in these fields have created a sort of pidgin language to allow them to work together—communication is possible, but more difficult than it could be. This dynamic is also present in data and visualization. Architects might have a predisposition to consume things visually, whereas social scientists may find more meaning in text or statistics. Architectsmay be well versed in standards, but not in the cultural context from which those standards emerged.
Yet, there is also a natural overlap between these fields: human behavior is profoundly shaped by the spaces people inhabit, and occupants also adapt spaces to suit their needs. We foster discussions of research and the meaning of form in order to build the shared understanding necessary for successful collaboration. We advocate for an expanded definition of the architecture profession that provides new avenues for collaboration and addresses questions of advocacy and inclusion through design. We seek new ways to measure experience and strengthen the understanding of the relationship between spaces and behavior.
With which disciplines should architects seek to communicate? Why?
How canconversations aboutdesign become more inclusive of a wide range of needs?
How can the human experience of a space be centered in conversations about its design?
How can data and information be represented in a way that speaks to both designers and researchers?
Science and Design
Part of the challenge inherent in increasing collaboration between these fields is that science and design are fundamentally different in their approach to the world. On one hand, science is concerned with the immutable (natural laws and principles of behavior), while the goal of design is to synthesize factors across disciplines to create something greater than the sum of its parts. On the other hand, science and design are in fact complementary; each is used to improve the other. Scientific inquiry is a creative process and design relies on patterns in the natural world and in social spheres. Roger Martin, former dean of The Rotman School of Management, spoke about this intersection when introducing Rotman on Design: "In the end, design is about shaping a particular context for the better, rather than taking it is as it is. Success today arises not from emulating others, but by evolving unique models, products and experiences — in short, creative solutions." Exploring this dynamic yields fruitful conversations about both science and design.
What environment or conditions led to a particularexperimental result or finding? Does that still hold true in different circumstances?
How can researchers use the design of spaces to explore new frontiers in social science?
What experimental methods can designers utilize to improve the spaces they create?
How can designers and social scientists collaborate on research?
Because architecture influences so much of human behavior, efforts to develop the symbiosis between it and social science can take many shapes. By sharing resources related to these themes on the committee's AIANY webpage, we encourage the community to expand beyond the NY local chapter. Specifically, we encourage groups in other localities to form communities of discourse on the topics of Social Science and Architecture. Going forward, the committee intends to continue its programming while also expanding upon its work in a few additional areas.
An important part of this work is to foster community between all of the participants in a building project. While architects are some of the most visible contributors to the design of a space, they are part of a larger ecosystem. Their work—and the experience of a space—is influenced by the choices of many others, such as engineers who develop new building materials, developers who choose what and how to build, researchers who select areas of study, governmental agencies and leaders who set and enforce policy, and members of the press who shape public opinion. Much of the experience is also shaped by the landlords, operators, and occupants themselves. One key goal of the Social Science and Architecture Committee is to continue to bring more of these contributors into the conversation.
It is also important to recognize excellence in collaboration between social science and architecture. Awards can help practitioners to tell success stories, and they also serve an important role in increasing the appetite for cross-disciplinary cooperation. As it becomes apparent that engaging social scientists in the design process is good for occupants and practitioners, more of each will naturally choose to do so.
EDRA is a fitting venue in which to discuss the work of the Social Science and Architecture Committee, as they assemble like-minded communities of practice. This session provided an opportunity to solicit new ideas and to generate conversation between practitioners. At a time when data-gathering capabilities within the built environment are rapidly evolving, this community is vital to increasing awareness of the impact of architecture on human performance and wellness. The symbiotic relationship between architecture and social science will continue to grow.
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In response to increased gun violence and mass casualty events in the country, the White House and the Department of Homeland Security created "Stop the Bleed," a national campaign to help improve survival from life-threatening bleeding.
In the nation's largest Stop the Bleed initiative, UPMC is partnering with the Copeland Regional Trauma Council, a consortium of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, to coordinate Stop the Bleed efforts.
To train bystanders how to stop bleeding with dressings, compression, and tourniquets.
A person can bleed to death in less than five minutes, which makes it difficult for emergency medical responders to arrive fast enough to control bleeding and save lives.
Because bystanders and non-medical law enforcement officers may be on the scene before emergency medical responders, Stop the Bleed aims to educate them on how to control bleeding, with the goal of saving lives.
Contact us to schedule training for your organization or to learn more about bleeding control kits.


I used Flash, HTML, CSS, to build this site that is a portal for documents that support the InteracTIP initiative. The first step was to design the InteracTIP logo and from there my role was to develop an exciting, interesting, animated presentation of the information about the InteracTIP. I converted the content into HTML, added photos, graphics and laid out the pages using CSS. You can view the site here.


As widely reported recently, close to 1.2 million borrowers (about 30% of the more than 3.9 million households that faced foreclosure proceedings by the 11 leading financial institutions in 2009 and 2010), had to battle purported wrongful seizures of these properties.
These battles were frequently waged despite the borrowers not having defaulted on their loans, being protected against foreclosure under federal law, or having been in good-standing under bank-approved plans to either restructure their mortgage loans or temporarily delay required payments.
More than 244,000 of those borrowers eventually lost their homes. Nearly 700 borrowers who faced foreclosure proceedings had never defaulted on their loans. More than 28,000 were protected under bankruptcy laws, while approximately 1,100 had been meeting the obligations under loan modification plans.
Perhaps most disturbingly, some 1,600 borrowers that were serving this notion and were protected by the Service Members Civil Relief Act of 2003, appear to have lost their homes at the hands of their mortgage loan servicers. A full breakdown of the statistics is attached here.
Yet, despite being enmeshed in multiple government and private litigation matters and governmental investigations for their alleged servicing, mortgage origination and secondary market misconduct, these same financial institutions brazenly continue to seek relief against correspondents and originators. We hope that over time we have helped originators realize that they should question the veracity of every single aspect of these financial institutions' repurchase and indemnity claims; and for multiple reasons, originators might want to thoroughly investigate the banks' servicing activities.
From what we observe, originators are increasingly first being contacted by an aggregator or a GSE several years after the borrower's alleged default, and often years after the underlying real property has been foreclosed on and/ or the loan has been modified. Yet, when originators request documentation regarding the servicing of the loan, many aggregators still refuse, claiming that servicing is not relevant or referring to "legal restrictions". Are these aggregators correct? An originator won't find out without doing some investigation on its own, as well as pushing this point with the aggregators.


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Hepatitis E infections up; Irish warning cites pork as contributor
The Health Protection Surveillance Center in Ireland has issued a warning about hepatitis E and undercooked pork following an increase in the number of people infected during summer and autumn this past year.
The agency reported a small increase in clinical notifications during the summer and autumn periods in 2018.
Health Protection Surveillance Center (HPSC) officials reminded consumers of the risk associated with undercooked meat, particularly when barbecuing. Meat cooked on a grill is more likely to char on the outside, while remaining undercooked in the middle.
FSAI advice
Hepatitis E infection is a disease of the liver caused by hepatitis E virus (HEV). Infections have been linked to consumption of raw or undercooked pork or game meat but can also occur through drinking HEV contaminated water or eating contaminated shellfish.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) recommends cooking pork and pork products such as sausages to a minimum temperature of 75 degrees Celsius at the center of the thickest part.
The agency recommends use of a meat thermometer to check temperature of cooked meat and meat products. Hand washing and hygiene precautions in the kitchen are also essential to prevent foodborne illness through handling of raw meat or cross contamination of cooked food by raw items, utensils and food contact surfaces
The average time between exposure to the hepatitis E virus and infection is 40 days with a range of 21 to 56 days. Half of infected people do not develop symptoms but can still spread the virus to other people.
Symptoms may include yellowing of the skin and eyes, dark urine, extreme fatigue, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain and can be more severe in pregnant women and people with weak immune systems.
Role of food
Hepatitis E became a notifiable disease in Ireland at the end of 2015. There were 218 notifications to HPSC between 2016 and 2018. A total of 66 percent were clinical cases, detected because they had clinical symptoms, or liver function test results, consistent with viral hepatitis while the other 34 percent were blood donors.
There were 54 notifications of hepatitis E in 2017 compared to 90 in 2016. Food histories were completed for 23 cases of HEV.
All but one had eaten one or more pork products in the nine weeks before illness or diagnosis. The one case who had not consumed pork was likely infected outside Ireland. The most commonly eaten pork items were bacon at 91 percent, pork sausages at 87 percent, pork meat at 74 percent, and sliced ham.
In 2017, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) found consumption of raw or undercooked pork meat and liver was the top cause of hepatitis E infection in the EU.
According to data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the number of confirmed HEV cases has skyrocketed from 514 in 2005 to 5,617 cases in 2015, representing a 10-fold increase. A total of 28 deaths were reported from five countries between 2005 and 2015.
Tags: Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI), Health Protection Surveillance Center, Hepatitis E, pork products, undercooked meat


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The Deadly Companions (1961)
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Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Director: Dixie McCoy, Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Billy Vaughan, Brian Keith, Chill Wills, James O'Hara, Maureen O'Hara, Peter O'Crotty, Steve Cochran, Strother Martin, Will Wright
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Meghan Makes Solo Visit To University Of Johannesburg
October 1, 2019 October 1, 2019 EArsova 0 Comments Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle
On Tuesday morning, Meghan arrived for a roundtable discussion with the Association of Commonwealth Universities, at University of Johannesburg, ready to undertake another full day of engagements.
She met with academics and students to discuss the challenges faced by young women in accessing higher education.
As the Duchess arrived, she was cheered with screams from students who were lined up along a wall overlooking the entrance.
Meghan received a warm welcome by Glavan, director of the British Council in South Africa, and Professor Tshilidzi Marwala, vice chancellor of the university.
For the engagement, Meghan wore a Banana Republic dress in her favourite trench coat style; whiche she paired with beige Stuart Weitzman pumps and a bracelet by Alemdara.
The dress is similar like the one she was dressed in when she and Harry formally introduced son Archie to the world at a Windsor Castle photo call in May.
At the University event, "Meghan said As patron of the ACU it has been an incredible year now and we are really working to advocate for what is truly and deeply important to me: education and higher education, specifically is such a key element for growth, for economic growth and personal growth."
"I think so much of what we should be talking about at ACU is supporting people to know that … you can take the next step," she said.
"So much is about having the support and scholarships and funding for students … That was the reason I was able to attend university.
"At the same level you need to have that support on the inside to be able to give as much back to those in the education system"
While there, she also announced three new Gender Grants for the University of Johannesburg, Stellenbosch University and the University of Western Cape.
"The goal here is to be able to have gender equality, to be able to support women as they are working in research and higher education roles," she said.
"And also to be able to have workshops, convene things that are really helping people understand the importance of gender equality. True to what you said, when a women is empowered it changes absolutely everything in the community and starting an educational atmosphere is really a key point of that."
"If you don't have the support that is necessary that you feel that you can keep taking the next step then you're stunted in growth."
Following her visit, Professor Marwala said: 'Meghan will absolutely inspire woman because she is black.' He had earlier told the discussion: 'If you want to feed a village you have to empower women.'
Meanwhile her husband Prince Harry is on his last day of engagements in Malawi. He visited the Mauwa Health Centre, Pharmacy in a Box and Youth Reproductive Health Outreach program.
Through this projects, the UK and US have supported the introduction of solar-powered storage units to provide life-saving medicines where they are most needed.
He will fly back to South Africa to see his family in Johannesburg. The Sussexes will return home in London on Wednesday.
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...You realize there's a Shark on your head!? This crazy-eyed baby Great White has got its jaws wrapped snuggly around your head and is turning heads everywhere. This shocking Hat is super comfortable, made of polyester and cotton with giant glassy eyes. There's even a size adjuster inside to fit smaller heads. Making Sharks everywhere a little more uncomfortable.


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Q: Install error with lerna and yarn workspace I implemented Lerna and yarn workspaces in my project and when I gonna install packages, it says
error Couldn't find package "@kratos/core@^1.0.1" required by "@kratos/storybook@1.0.1" on the "npm" registry.

Whereas these @kratos/core and @kratos/storybook packages exist in the packages folder and they are local packages.
I tried these commands but facing the below error:

*

*lerna add @kratos/core --scope @kratos/renderer:

*lerna add @kratos/core packages/renderer

lerna notice cli v3.22.0
lerna info versioning independent
lerna notice filter including "@kratos/renderer"
lerna info filter [ '@kratos/renderer' ]
lerna WARN No packages found where @kratos/core can be added.

Lerna config file:
{
    "useWorkspaces": true,
    "npmClient": "yarn",
    "packages": ["packages/*"],
    "version": "independent",
    "command": {
        "publish": {
            "ignoreChanges": [
                "test/**/*",
                "*.test.*",
                "*.spec.*",
                "cypress",
                "*.md",
                "scripts",
                "lib",
                "tslint.json",
                "tsconfig.json"
            ]
        },
        "run": {
            "npmClient": "yarn"
        }
    }
}

Thanks, Lerna for having a lot of problems without useful documentation.

A: *

*You need to run lerna bootstrap in order for lerna to create symbolic links for all of your packages/* in node_modules.

*If your local version of any of your packages, in your case @kratos/core, does not match the version you are referencing in your package.json files, then it will try to import the package from npm. This could be why you are seeing "could not find package on the npm registry"

A: I ran into this same issue but it was caused by something else. In my scenario, I was trying to link a package like so:
// package B

"dependencies": {
  "@scope/packageA": "*",
}

but Package A had a package.json with version specified as "0.x.0-alpha.1" which was causing Lerna to return a similar error:

"error Couldn't find any versions for "@scope/packageA" that matches "*""

Solution:
Package A for us turned out to not be published to our NPM registry under any non-pre-release version. So, the solution was to revert the version string of Package A to be just, "0.x.0" (removed "-alpha.1" prefix) and then re-ran the lerna bootstrap command, and it worked!
Hope this helps :)


Who said that old age has to be boring? Golden Age opens the doors to the Palace, a retirement home of the kind that you have never seen before, in Miami. Gildings, ostentatious chandeliers, marble floors; like a cross between a luxury hotel and an Americanised copy of Versailles, the place is presented by its developers as the most beautiful retirement home in the Unites States. The residents here are pampered by an army of employees devoted to their every whim, in a permanent party atmosphere. This abundance of luxury, extravagance and entertainment is nonetheless not enough to remove the anxieties of those who live there. Nor can it hide the intentions of the investors for whom old age is above all a source of income and a growing market. Golden Age takes us on a journey into this baroque universe which tries to suppress the fear of death through dollars, questioning, in a dizzying visual whirlwind, our relationship to old age in its most universal aspect.


Classic downeast Maine hospitality awaits your arrival at Manor House Inn. We are located in the tree-lined historic district of West Street, once known as Millionaire's Row. Our verdant grounds, gardens and fern lined porches offer our guests a delightful place to relax and unwind as they enjoy all that Mount Desert Island has to offer them. Manor House Inn has plenty of parking so leave your car behind and enjoy the easy walk to the waterfront, village shops, award winning restaurants, theater, museums and pubs.
Our Inn consists of the original three story 1887 Boscobel Mansion, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and our Chauffeurs' Cottage. Both buildings contain guest rooms individually styled with their Victorian past in mind. Just beyond our gardens you will find our two Garden Cottages. Both are created with an airy cottage style and offer a distinctly private accommodation. And finally our Acadia Cottage with it's wide front porch offers guests spacious accommodations with turn of the century details and modern amenities.
Each morning our guests are treated to a hearty home baked breakfast buffet served from our original Butler's Pantry. Enjoy the main dining room, a seat by the fire or perhaps the breakfast garden protected by cedar hedge and flowers of the season as you plan for the days adventure. And once that adventure is complete return to your favorite wicker porch chair and enjoy our daily afternoon tea service. Lemonade, tea from a gracious china cup and sweets still warm from the oven are the guaranteed pick me up.
Our Bar Harbor, Maine Bed and Breakfast Inn is known for its gracious hospitality and offers guests a wide range of amenities including king or queen beds, fireplaces, whirlpool tubs and private porches. All of our guest rooms have private baths. Bar Harbor is our home and Acadia National Park our back yard, so let us help you plan each vacation day enjoying Acadia's scenic beauty with a great mountain or seaside hike, a bike ride on the 50 miles of carriage roads into Acadia, an exciting whale watching trip. Or perhaps a romantic sunset sail around our outer islands or a drive along the gorgeous and rugged rockbound coast of downeast Maine. We look forward to welcoming you to our Bar Harbor home!
Each morning a hearty home baked breakfast buffet is served in the Mansion. Enjoy a table in the dining room, a seat by the fire, or wander into our secluded and sunny breakfast garden.
Our wicker filled front porch or the Gazebo are the ideal places to enjoy home baked cookies and tea, served each afternoon.
Manor House Inn offers guest rooms in Boscobel Mansion and Chauffeur's Cottage, all individually styled with their Victorian past in mind. The Garden Cottages each offer airy cottage style and complete privacy just beyond the gardens. Our Acadia Cottage offers spacious guest rooms with turn of the century details and modern amenities. Come and find your favorite room soon!
An Innkeeper or member of staff is available daily; 6am ~9pm to assist you with daily plans.
Our evening Innkeeper lives on site and is available for emergency call throughout the night.
We are all happy to assist with local knowledge for everything from dining, pub tours and museum visits to hiking, kayacking, whale watching and of course will happily share the location of our favorite vistas in Acadia National Park!
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We do not refund for partial cancellation or early departure.
We happily honor promotions and gift certificates issued by Select Registry and Bed and Breakfast.Com in addition to our own. We ask they be indicated when you book your reservation.
Manor House Inn is not appropriate for children under the age of 12.
We do not offer cots, cribs or rollaway beds. Accomodations for parties of 3 and up are limited. Please call the inn for details.
Pets are not allowed at Manor House Inn.
We are happy to suggest a kennel on the Island.
We are a non smoking property.
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That's the end of our first chapter (not counting the prologue) and our first year (as of August 31). We will NOT have a hiatus between chapters. A new page will go up on Wednesday, as always.
Both Dan and us have picked up some new friends along the way. Thanks for being here, whether you're a longtime reader or you just got here (shoutout to anyone who's looking at this because you just found your Dan the Snowman postcard at the bottom of your Dragon Con swagbag).


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Welcome to Part 3 of an ongoing series with ShuttleCloud engineers discussing projects, bottlenecks, and whatever else is on their mind.
Below is an interview with Carlos Cabañero, Co-Founder and CTO of ShuttleCloud who lives in Madrid, Spain.
I started coding when I was 6 years old — my dad was sick of buying video games and told me I should make my own, so I did. Back then magazines came with pre-defined applications you could code yourself, and I discovered that changing the games to make them my own was more fun than playing them. Besides games I also made applications for businesses, accountants, retail, and even libraries. I published my first video game when I was 16 to one of the earliest digital publishing platforms, but ultimately got cheated out of the revenue share.
My interests evolved during university when I began exploring digital art creation with a partner named Álvaro Castro. We were invited to exhibit in 2006's Ars Electronica with an application that makes projections on urban planning emergencies based on sample data like population size. This was effectively an application of what Big Data is today — taking sample data and visualizing it.
I've always loved the symbiosis between hardware and software, and as an artist I worked with individuals and companies to envision new ways that technology could reshape their businesses. One of my projects involved designing a device for domotics. It evolved into a mobile device that could store personal data — either from social networks or other sources — and could share this data with surrounding devices such as a home stereo (to know what music you'd like to play) or a thermostat (based on mood and weather conditions). We worked on this before the iPhone was a reality.
What's your role at ShuttleCloud?
Eduardo and I started the company with a single concern — do people want to migrate email? We threw together an MVP to validate the idea, and after receiving interest we knew we needed to scale very quickly to meet demand.
During Techstars my role as CTO was crazy. The incubator concept is to create a product that looks interesting within a short period of time, with very few resources, and with a lot of distractions. I spent many nights sleeping on couches at the office. This phase was rough but critical — it was all about discovering things and being able to iterate quickly. These are the character qualities you want during the early stages of a company, and we survived, which feels great.
How have you built the team and the platform?
Our investor pitch was that it doesn't matter where or what your data is — I came up with the vision of a 'pipeline' on top of the cloud, optimized for data movement and agnostic to endpoints (email, contacts, whatever). I knew to achieve this we'd have to test potential architectures very quickly, the last being what Félix discusses. Over the past 2 years our entire team has contributed to the platform.
After graduating and raising money it was time to build a team and scale what we hacked together at Techstars. As we've grown from 2 to 12 people in the past couple years I've adapted Werner Vogel's framework for a growing CTO. Right now I'm in stage 2, described as a leader with a vision whose moving away from daily ops and helps assemble teams.
What bottlenecks have you encountered?
Hiring is obviously a bottleneck, but it's also related to the speed at which you grow. Even if we could onboard 50 engineers overnight we wouldn't. One of the most important things for our engineering team is our culture — knowing 'how' to approach each other with problems. Since culture takes time to build, so should hiring. So in one way, building culture has fueled the bottleneck of hiring, making it a good problem to have.
When you start out you're constantly throwing code away and building again from scratch, but as time goes by you have to work with patterns and improve what you've got — starting over isn't feasible anymore. This is a bottleneck, however, that you have to cope with instead of fight.
Describe a project you're proud of.
What I'm most proud of is our great team — we have 11 already! It's all for one (and one for all) and the team's talent and drive makes me proud.


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SAN BERNARDINO – Down to her last game in an Eisenhower High School uniform, it didn't matter to senior guard Legea Berryhill that her San Bernardino County All-Stars almost were run out of the gym in the first half Friday.
She would do it again.
"I really wish it wasn't the last time," she said.
Berryhill scored 10 points and led a respectable second-half comeback for San Bernardino County, which fell to Riverside County, 77-61, in the Riverside/San Bernardino County Senior All-Star Games at Cajon High.
Riverside, which pulled players from programs that included three CIF Southern Section champions – Corona Santiago, Moreno Valley Canyon Springs and Murrieta Valley – rolled to a 20-point, first-half lead and never looked back.
San Bernardino at least made things interesting in the second half by closing a 44-24 halftime deficit to 54-43 with 11:46 remaining and 63-51 with 8:15 left after the second of three consecutive 3-pointers by Yucaipa's Carly Seckrater.
"Everyone was a little nervous and a little unsure at the start," said San Bernardino County coach Anders Anderson, the Etiwanda coach who led his team to a section-final loss to Santiago this year.
"But as they played – and these girls have played so much – they picked it up and got used to each other."
The games were played with 20-minute halves like in college and neither team had practiced beforehand. No timeouts were allowed, and the showcase essentially amounted to enjoyable pickup games for Inland Empire's top high school seniors.
"We just kind of made everything up on the fly," Anderson said.
Berryhill tied with home-gym favorite DeJaunee Brooks of Cajon for a team-high 10 points.
Riverside King's Kiazha Ginwright led all scorers with 15 points.
Santiago guard Chrishae Rowe also reached double digits by scoring 10 points for the Riverside County team, which was coached by Murrieta Valley coach Scott Richards.
"I'm used to playing with players like this," Berryhill said. "I was just trying to play and then add on to what I was doing."
The game also featured halftime 3-point contests.
The girls' competition was won by Redlands guard Dominique Underwood. She was the first shooter and hit
7 of 12 3-point attempts in the allotted 30 seconds.
She also scored the last points for the San Bernardino team on – what else? – a 3-pointer.
"It was a lot of fun," she said. "No one wanted to go first, so I was like, `Well, I'll step up.' "
In the boys' game San Bernardino High's Khleem Perkins scored a game-high 27 points and was named MVP despite San Bernardino County's 120-117 loss to Riverside.
Cajon's Michael Henley added 22 points. Beaumont's Alan Hendey won the halftime slam-dunk contest.
Perkins had a chance to tie the boys' game, which featured a dizzying array of dunks and 3s, but he missed from the top of the key with two seconds remaining.
"This game is a lot of fun and a good time for a good bunch of guys," said Redlands East Valley coach Bill Berich, who coached the San Bernardino County team. "Of course, I can't remember the last time my team scored 117 points and lost."
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Home > News > Soccer > MLS Cup Finalists Portland Timbers Now 80-1 Odds to Win MLS Cup: Is There Value?
MLS Cup Finalists Portland Timbers Now 80-1 Odds to Win MLS Cup: Is There Value?
If Portland keeps falling and the Timbers Army isn't there to see it, does it still matter? Of course it does.
Off to an 0-5-1 start, the chances of the Timbers and their rabid fanbase returning to the MLS Cup are lengthening signficantly.
Across the leading sportsbooks, the chances of Portland repeating as Western Conference champions are slim. Portland's MLS Cup odds have jumped to +8000.
*Odds taken on April 15, 2019. Click the link in the table for more options.
As recently as March 28, the Timbers were listed at +1800 to win the 2019 MLS Cup.
Entering the 2019 MLS season, the Timbers knew the potential for a slow start would be ripe.
Due to construction at Providence Park, their home stadium, the Timbers are playing an MLS-record 12 consecutive games on the road to begin the season.
They will close with 11 of their last 12 games on their home pitch but by then, will it be too late to salvage their season?
Tottenham & Ajax Enter Semifinals as Underdogs to Win Champions League; Is There Value in Either?


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William Cole and Adam Levin Recognized in Human Resource Executive List of Most Powerful Employment Attorneys
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP is pleased to announce that partners William Cole and Adam Levin have been selected among the "Top 100 Most Powerful Employment Attorneys."
Lawdragon selects the top employment lawyers who stand out for their ability to guide employers through the constantly evolving laws governing the workplace and presents its results in this annual guide. This is the ninth edition of the "Nation's Most Powerful Employment Attorneys" produced in partnership with Human Resource Executive (HRE) magazine.
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Home » WOD Blog » Not just any Monday!
Venice is officially open! First workout of the day will be at 5:30am! As we grow into our new home and with lots of work still to be done, we will be making tweaks here and there and adjusting the workouts as needed.
Track Night at the MDR Gym tonight!
Notes: Find a weight that challenges you for 1 rep. For each new 2:00, additional weight should be added. Advanced athletes use 80%,85% and 90%.
Notes: There is no break between the run and 3 rounds. Pick the same number or reps for all exercises.
Photo taken at 10:46am Sunday morning.


Honolulu doesn't observe daylight saving time but Bern does. DST in Bern started on 31 March 2019 and will end on 27 October 2019. Once DST ends in Bern the time difference between Honolulu and Bern will be 11:0 hours.
Distance from Honolulu to Bern is 7659.4 Miles (12326.6 Kilometers / 6651.4 Nautical Miles).
Approximate flight duration time for a non-stop flight from Honolulu, Hawaii to Bern, Switzerland is 15 hrs, 54 mins.